Noun: mew
Sample Sentences
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A daungerous and detestable place,
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To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch,
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But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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From helm to sea they saw him leap,
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As arrow from the string,
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And dive into the water deep,
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As mew upon the wing. [1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:]
Nouns inflected like mew
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
mewe', Dutch Nouns '
meeuw', German Nouns '
Möwe', Polish Nouns '
mewa'.
Verbs referencing "mew"
English Nouns
fulmar, French Nouns
mauvis.