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mewer en · NOUN

Etymology

From mew + -er.

Meanings

1. One who makes a mewing sound; a cat.
   • This supposedly demonstrates 'uncertainty' because one doesn't know if the cat is dead or alive until you peek inside. However, our version is more deterministic. There is no isotope-clock, no hydrocyanic acid. We drop a mewer in one of these reusable modules, close it tight, add just a limited supply of oxygen […] c. 1970? Wilyem Clark, Picasso's Cat (page 154)
   • They heard a noise of mournful mewing, and looked down at the cats in the river below. A small black one, the probable mewer, was gazing up at them with such a sorrowful expression in its green eyes that my lady was wrung with pity. 2013, Harley White, The Autobiography of a Granada Cat, page 47:
2. One who mews (flattens the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits).

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