mewer

Noun

mewer (plural mewers)

1. One who makes a mewing sound; a cat.
   • They heard a noise of mournful mewing, and looked down at the cats in the river below. A small black one, the probable mewer, was gazing up at them with such a sorrowful expression in its green eyes that my lady was wrung with pity.2013, Harley White, The Autobiography of a Granada Cat, page 47
   • This supposedly demonstrates 'uncertainty' because one doesn't know if the cat is dead or alive until you peek inside. However, our version is more deterministic. There is no isotope-clock, no hydrocyanic acid. We drop a mewer in one of these reusable modules, close it tight, add just a limited...c. 1970? Wilyem Clark, Picasso's Cat (page 154)
2. One who mews (flattens the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits).