Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cry as a cat; mew.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The crying of a cat.
- intransitive verb To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated The cry of a
cat . - verb intransitive, dated To give the cry of a cat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
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Examples
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So Mother Sub-Prioress will spit out a curse upon the viands; or Sister Mary Rebecca will miaul over them like an old cat that sees a tom in every shadow, though all toms have long since fled at her approach.
The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century 1891
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"` Well, 'says he, ` I heard her miaul, and when I awoke I think I seed two eyes looking at me.'
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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