mew

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prison, or other place of confinement. obsolete
  2. A gull, seagull. archaic,dialectal,poetic
    — A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
  3. The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
  4. A hiding place; a secret store or den. obsolete
    — Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
  5. The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
  6. A breeding-cage for birds. obsolete
  7. An exclamation of disapproval; a boo. obsolete
  8. A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
    — A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
  9. A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept. in-plural
动词 v.
  1. To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure. intransitive,slang
  2. To meow. especially
  3. To shut away, confine, lock up. archaic
    — More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
  4. To moult.
    — The hawk mewed his feathers.
  5. To make its cry.
  6. To cause to moult. obsolete
  7. To shed antlers. obsolete
感叹词 intj.
  1. A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
  2. A gull's or buzzard's cry.
  3. An exclamation of disapproval; boo. archaic

词形变化

mews plural mews plural mews present,singular,third-person mewing participle,present mewed participle,past mewed past mue alternative mews plural mews present,singular,third-person mewing participle,present mewed participle,past mewed past mews present,singular,third-person mewing participle,present mewed participle,past mewed past

词汇关系

衍生词
mew up mews unmew snow mew mewer mewingly

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 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”).
词源 3
From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
词源 4
Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.
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