英语词汇“mew”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mew1

/mjuː

verb [no object]

(Of a cat or gull) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise: cats mewing to be fed (as noun mewing) he heard mewing somewhere near the house...

The baby was found at 3am by a Spanish holidaymaker who thought he had heard a cat mewing.
That's because a cat began mewing from an alley nearby.
The old surveillance cat mewed pitifully on the way.

Synonyms

miaow, meow, mewl, yowl, cry

cry, screech, squawk

miaowing, meowing, mewling, yowling;

caterwauling, noise

cry, crying, screech, screeching, squawking

noun

The high-pitched cry of a cat or gull: a kitten’s mew...

There was a high-pitched mew, and one of the kitten's paws slashed up against the girl's right hand.
It sounded like a faint mew of a kitten, but I wasn't really sure.
He's big now, but he has a faint purr, a tiny kitten peeping mew.

Origin

Middle English: imitative.

Rhymes

mew2

/mjuː

Falconry

noun (usually mews)

A cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews....

We do not have an outdoor mew to accommodate this size of bird and it's too cold outside for the condor now anyway.
It was quieter here, and more orderly, with falcon mews and kennels for the Baron's hunting dogs ranged against the wall.

verb

1 [no object] (Of a trained hawk) moult: the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing...

The word itself derives from the royal stables at Charing Cross in London built on the site where the royal hawks were once moulted or mewed.

2 [with object] Confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting: Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed

2.1Confine (someone) in a restricting place or situation: a lovely wife mewed up in an Oxfordshire farmhouse...

We are also asked to believe that, out of shame at his daughter's disability, he mewed her and her late mother up in ever smaller, tighter rooms.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer 'to moult', from Latin mutare 'to change'.

单词	mew
释义	mew1 /mjuː / verb [no object] (Of a cat or gull) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise: cats mewing to be fed (as noun mewing) he heard mewing somewhere near the house... The baby was found at 3am by a Spanish holidaymaker who thought he had heard a cat mewing. That's because a cat began mewing from an alley nearby. The old surveillance cat mewed pitifully on the way. Synonyms miaow, meow, mewl, yowl, cry cry, screech, squawk miaowing, meowing, mewling, yowling; caterwauling, noise cry, crying, screech, screeching, squawking noun The high-pitched cry of a cat or gull: a kitten’s mew... There was a high-pitched mew, and one of the kitten's paws slashed up against the girl's right hand. It sounded like a faint mew of a kitten, but I wasn't really sure. He's big now, but he has a faint purr, a tiny kitten peeping mew. Origin Middle English: imitative. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo mew2 /mjuː / Falconry noun (usually mews) A cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.... We do not have an outdoor mew to accommodate this size of bird and it's too cold outside for the condor now anyway. It was quieter here, and more orderly, with falcon mews and kennels for the Baron's hunting dogs ranged against the wall. verb 1 [no object] (Of a trained hawk) moult: the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing... The word itself derives from the royal stables at Charing Cross in London built on the site where the royal hawks were once moulted or mewed. 2 [with object] Confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting: Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed 2.1Confine (someone) in a restricting place or situation: a lovely wife mewed up* in an Oxfordshire farmhouse... We are also asked to believe that, out of shame at his daughter's disability, he mewed her and her late mother up in ever smaller, tighter rooms. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer* 'to moult', from Latin mutare 'to change'.
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