mew

Meanings

1. A gull, seagull.

1. A prison, or other place of confinement.
2. A hiding place; a secret store or den.
3. A breeding-cage for birds.
4. A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
5. A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

1. To shut away, confine, lock up.
2. To moult.
3. To cause to moult.
4. To shed antlers.

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

1. To meow.
2. To make its cry.

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

1. To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe (whence Polish mewa); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).