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Mells vs Mewls - What's the difference?

mells | mewls |

As verbs the difference between mells and mewls

is that mells is third-person singular of mell while mewls is third-person singular of mewl.

As a noun mewls is

plural of lang=en.

mells

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mell)

    • Anagrams

    *

    mell

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) melen, .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak; converse; tell; say.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Discourse; conversation.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
  • *c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
  • *:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
  • * 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
    • “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”

    Etymology 3

    See mellifluous.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) honey
  • * Warner
    • Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.
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    mewls

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mewl)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • mewl

    English

    Verb

  • To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
  • * 1599 , , As You Like It
    • 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, ...
  • * 1844 , , Martin Chuzzlewit
    • You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling , white-faced cat!
  • * 2007 , Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley , page 11,
    • My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .
  • * 1995 , , Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa (translators), The Murmuring Coast , 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.
  • * 2009 , Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys , page 61,
    • I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
  • * 2010 , Chris Wooding, Malice , page 15,
    • The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.