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What (who) is miaow - definition

VOCALIZATION BY CATS

Miaow; Miaou; Me ow; Me-ow; Meowing; Meowed; Meows; Mewed; Mauw; Miaowing; Mrrow; Miauw; Cat meow; Meou; Mreow; Merow; Mew (cat vocalization)

miaow

(miaows, miaowing, miaowed)

Note: in AM and sometimes in BRIT, use 'meow'

Miaow is used to represent the noise that a cat makes.

He made a frightened noise a little like the miaow of a cat.

N-COUNT; SOUND

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Miaow is also a verb.

Cats miaow when they are unhappy, purr when they are happy.

VERB: V

miaow

(also meow)

¦ noun the characteristic crying sound of a cat.

¦ verb (of a cat) make a miaow.

Origin

C17: imitative.

Miaow (band)

UK MUSICAL GROUP

Miaow were an English indie band from Manchester, England,Henderson, Dave (1987) "Spraycans & lip", Underground, December 1987 (Issue 9), p. 22-23 active between 1984 and 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miaow_(band)

Wikipedia

Meow

A meow or miaow is a cat vocalization. Meows may have diverse tones and are sometimes chattered, murmured or whispered. Adult cats rarely meow to each other, so an adult cat meowing to human beings is probably a post-domestication extension of meowing by kittens: a call for attention.

The meow can be assertive, plaintive, friendly, bold, welcoming, attention-soliciting, demanding, or complaining. It can even be silent, where the cat opens its mouth but does not vocalize. Just as humans may verbalize exhaustively when they are happy, so can cats. According to The Purrington Post, a chatty cat is likely happy too.

A mew is a high-pitched meow often produced by kittens. It is apparently used to solicit attention from the kitten's mother, and adult cats may use it as well. The mew is similar to what is described in Brown et al. 1978 as an isolation call. By around three to four weeks of age kittens do not mew when at least one littermate is present, and at four to five months of age kittens stop mewing altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow

Examples of use of miaow

1. Speaking of his longevity as a LibDem he added that he had even "been a member of the party when we had to tolerate Dr David Owen". Miaow!

2. Double glazing firm boss Mr Walsh, 45, said the first he knew about his passenger was when his neighbour Hazel Tierney knocked on his door saying she had heard the cat miaow.

3. Miaow: Even for an 80s throwback party Naomi Campbell‘s leopard–print tights and g–string was a fashion faux pas of the highest order The night started at boutique hotel The Great Eastern before the celebrity horde descended on trendy Shoreditch club The Colour Rooms for a seven–hour rave.

4. "If you want these people out and to stop asylum seekers coming in, then vote for the BNP." In a second speech, delivered at the Crossroads public house in Keighley on March 31 2004, Collett said gangs of Asian lads wanted "to wipe out white people". He added: "I honestly don‘t hate asylum seekers –these people are cockroaches and they‘re doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can‘t help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

5. Above, Brad Pitt as Achilles in 2004‘s Troy Biologist Randy Thornhill told an Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference in Newcastle it was wrong to think that women were exempt from "oestrus" – the hormonedriven surge in libido characterised by animals going "on heat". "Women don‘t miaow and they don‘t scratch at the door – but they do have oestrus," said the University of New Mexico professor.