to cry weakly, like a baby; whimper or whine
Origin of mewl
frequentative of mewmewl
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mewl
intransitive verb
mewled, mewl·ing, mewlsTo cry weakly; whimper.
Origin of mewl
Perhaps of imitative originTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present mewls, present participle mewling, simple past and past participle mewled)
Noun
(plural mewls)
- A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
Origin
Onomatopoeia; from 1599 or earlier (1530 in a Scottish document), apparently from Shakespeare with this spelling.
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