meaw

English

Etymology 1

Verb

meaw (third-person singular simple present meaws, present participle meawing, simple past and past participle meawed)

1. Dated form of meow.

Noun

meaw (plural meaws)

1. Dated form of meow.
   • 1881, Belgravia, volume 45:

     Was it a meaw I heard, and a scratching, or was it only the wind […]

Etymology 2

Noun

meaw (plural meaws or meawes)

1. Obsolete form of mew (“seagull”).

References

• “meaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• EWMA, wame