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English

Noun

emew (plural emews)

1. Obsolete form of emu.

Anagrams

• weem

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju/
• Rhymes: -ju?
• Homophone: mu

Etymology 1

From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English m?w, from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”) (compare West Frisian meau, mieu, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe), from *maiwijan? (“to shout, mew”) (compare Middle English mawen (“to shout, mew”), Middle Dutch mauwen, Middle High German m?wen); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (myjati, “to mew”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (archaic, poetic) A gull, seagull.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     From helm to sea they saw him leap, / As arrow from the string, / And dive into the water deep, / As mew upon the wing.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
2. (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
3. (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
4. (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
   • , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:

     A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

5. (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene 1,^[2]

     More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,

     While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

   • c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre,” in Charles M. Coffin (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, p. 84,^[3]

     To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall

     Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;

   • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,^[4]

     […] Nay some have learn’d the trick

     To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,

     Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 5, p. 163,^[5]

     […] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]

2. (of a bird) To moult.

   The hawk mewed his feathers.

   • 1700, John Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, “Cinyras and Myrrha, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” p. 184,^[6]

     Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […]

3. (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
4. (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.

Derived terms

• mew up

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
2. The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
3. (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.

Translations

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
2. (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.

Translations

Interjection

mew

1. A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
2. A gull's or buzzard's cry.
3. (archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.

Etymology 4

Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (slang, neologism) To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits.

References

Anagrams

• MWE, Wem, wem

Middle English

Noun

mew

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?f/

Noun

mew f

1. genitive plural of mewa

Yurok

Noun

mew

1. widower