Jay Griffiths

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

British Author

Sarah Millican

Our little cat comes for a snuggle, then the big cat mews for a stroke and moves a few paces, then another stroke, then another few paces, until we realise he has mewed us into the kitchen where their food bowls are. So they eat, we eat, and then we get on with our days.

Used to describe a cat's request for attention or expression of discomfort.

Cat Communication

A mew can indicate a cat's various needs or emotional states.

Emotional Cue

Cats mew to catch their owner's attention, especially around feeding times.

Attention Seeking

Often refers to the soft crying sound made by kittens rather than adult cats.

Kitten Sound

Descriptive way to convey the sound of a cat in stories or literature.

Descriptive Word

Specific to British English, relating to stables or homes converted from them.

Architectural Term

Understanding 'mew' as a stable helps when encountering UK real estate listings.

Cultural Reference

Used typically for the soft high sound made by birds of prey, like hawks.

Bird Sounds

The mew can be a signal, often used in nature documentaries or literature.

Hunting Signal

A rarely used, old-fashioned term for hiding or storing something away.

Archaic Usage

 her teats of the suckle marks so that's the youngest female that generally follows amber eyes so as soon as an buys Mews but she looks like she's stalking something look at her posture a misers gone into a store posture look at her the way that she's walking she's head down look lowering that head looking forward I wonder if she spotted something

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