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You can make 7 words from mew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of mew

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Definitions and meaning of mew

mew

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mjuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: mu

Etymology 1

From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw, from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe; akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
2. (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
3. (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
4. (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
5. (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
   • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,^[3]

     […] Nay some have learn’d the trick

     To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,

     Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
2. (of a bird) To moult.
3. (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
4. (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.

Alternative forms

• mue

Derived terms

• mew up

Etymology 3

From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.

Noun

mew (plural mews)

1. The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
2. The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
3. (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.

Derived terms

• snow mew

Translations

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
2. (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.

Translations

Interjection

mew

1. A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
2. A gull's or buzzard's cry.
3. (archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.

Etymology 4

Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.

Verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

1. (slang, neologism, intransitive) To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits.

References

See also

• mews

Anagrams

• MWE, Wem, wem

Middle English

Noun

mew

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf
• Syllabification: mew

Noun

mew f

1. genitive plural of mewa

Yurok

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Noun

mew

1. widower