Mealed vs Mewled - What's the difference?
mealed | mewled |
(meal)
(senseid)Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Food served or eaten as a repast.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=Anna Lena Phillips, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To defile or taint.
(mewl)
To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
* 1599 , , As You Like It
* 1844 , , Martin Chuzzlewit
* 2007 , Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley ,
A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .
* 1995 , , Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa (translators), The Murmuring Coast ,
* 2009 , Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys ,
* 2010 , Chris Wooding, Malice ,
As verbs the difference between mealed and mewled
is that mealed is (meal) while mewled is (mewl).mealed
English
Verb
(head)meal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Sneaky Silk Moths, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* make a meal of * meal mob * meal station * meal ticketEtymology 2
From (etyl) mele, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal .}}
Derived terms
* mealy * cornmeal * oatmealEtymology 3
Variation of mole (compare (etyl) mail), from (etyl) mole, mool, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ? Shakespeare.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----mewled
English
Verb
(head)mewl
English
Verb
- And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, ...
- You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling , white-faced cat!
page 11,
- My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.
Noun
(en noun)page 89,
- There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
page 61,
- I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
page 15,
- The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.