Mewling vs Shriek - What's the difference?
mewling | shriek |
A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
* Spenser
* Moore
As nouns the difference between mewling and shriek
is that mewling is a sound that mewls while shriek is a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.As verbs the difference between mewling and shriek
is that mewling is while shriek is to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.shriek
English
Noun
(en noun)- Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?
Verb
- It was the owl that shrieked .
- At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.