miaul
verbEtymology Compare French miauler, of imitative origin.
1
Dated To give the cry of a cat.
- "or Lady Penelope is miauling like a starved cat !"1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291: