miaul

• meowl

Compare French miauler, of imitative origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjaʊl/, /miːˈaʊl/
• Rhymes: -aʊl, -iːaʊl

miaul (plural miauls)

1. (dated) The cry of a cat.

• miaow, meow

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. […], volume (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 !"

   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291:

     It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.

• miaow, meow

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

• Umali, aumil, lumia, mulai