mee-maws

Verb (1)

mee-maw (third-person singular simple present mee-maws, present participle mee-mawing, simple past and past participle mee-mawed)

1. To silently make exaggerated movements with the mouth so as to be understood in environment with loud noise, such as that of machinery.
   • So we walked round and mee-mawed at one another. (Mee-mawing is mouthing words at each other without making a sound using exaggerated lip movements. This is the name the weavers, who use this technique all the time, give to it.)2009, Stanley Graham, Brown and Pickles, →ISBN, page 290

Verb (2)

mee-maw (third-person singular simple present mee-maws, present participle mee-mawing, simple past and past participle mee-mawed)

1. To make the two-syllable wailing noise of a siren.
   • It is nasal, screeching, yowling, mee-mawing, wailing—every sound excruciating to ears refined.1872, Locke's National Monthly - Volumes 1-2, page 309

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