meou

English

Verb

meou (third-person singular simple present meous, present participle meouing, simple past and past participle meoued)

  1. Alternative form of meow
    • 1838, The Hesperian, volume 1, page 38:
      Even her favourite Tabby […] who was wont to wink and meou around the table at meal times, for the especial excitement of her mistress' benevolence, meoued never a word […]
    • 1916, Ezra Pound
      I do not recognize anyone's right to interfere with the freedom of letters, nor can a serious writer be expected to abandon the tongue of Shakespeare for the meouing of Wordsworth and Al. Tennyson and Mr Gosse.

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meou

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of mear
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