Mewl vs Moan - What's the difference?
mewl | moan |
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 ,
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
As verbs the difference between mewl and moan
is that mewl is to cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine while moan is to complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.As nouns the difference between mewl and moan
is that mewl is a soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling while moan is a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.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!
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- My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.
Noun
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- 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.
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- I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
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- The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.
moan
English
Verb
(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .