miaulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Compare French miauler, of imitative origin.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmjaʊl/, /miːˈaʊl/
• 韻: -aʊl, -iːaʊl

名詞

miaul (plural miauls)

1. (dated) The cry of a cat.

同意語

• miaow, meow

動詞

miaul (third-person singular simple present miauls, present participle miauling, simple past and past participle miauled)

1. (intransitive, dated) To give the cry of a cat.
   • 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     "or Lady Penelope is miauling like a starved cat !"

同意語

• miaow, meow

参照

• “miaul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Umali, aumil, lumia, mulai