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meawl

meawl is the obsolete form of mewl.

Meaning of mewl

Verb

mewl (third-person singular simple present mewls, present participle mewling, simple past and past participle mewled)

  1. To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
    • And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Forms of meawl

third-person singular presentmeawls
present participlemeawling
past participlemeawled
pastmeawled

Questions about meawl

What is meawl the obsolete form of?
Meawl is the obsolete form of mewl.

Words near meawl in the dictionary

  1. Meavy
  2. meaw
  3. meawed
  4. meawes
  5. meawing
  6. meawl
  7. meawled
  8. meawling
  9. meawls
  10. meaws
  11. meazel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meawl (page history and authors); mewl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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