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Slang Meaning of Mewing
Mewing is the practice, especially among young men, of placing one’s tongue against the roof of the mouth to (supposedly) improve the structure and increase the attractiveness of one’s jaw and facial structure (a practice that has not been found to be effective). Learn more >
Examples of mew in a Sentence
Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
The three-story, brick house is in the middle of a tiny historic mews in the Murray Hill neighborhood.
—Vivian Marino, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The second-floor guest bedroom is accompanied by a contemporary marble bathroom, and the third floor is taken up by the primary suite, which encompasses a sizable dark-blue bedroom plus a separate sitting room/office with windows overlooking the mews.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 May 2025
The private stone mews had over the years been home to the composer Cole Porter and the musician Lenny Kravitz.
—Vivian Marino, New York Times, 2 May 2025
He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Six months later the ones that got it right would be living in their own mews houses in Pimlico and looking fifteen years younger.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The neo-classical residence, in addition to a mews house on nearby Kinnerton Street, was sold by Fairway Capital to an unidentified U.K. buyer.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2025
Gorgeous — there’s no way around it — with beamed ceilings, hardwoods throughout, half a block from the Washington Square mews …
$4,995, 1-bedroom: Charming prewar with good bones and a ridiculously small kitchen.
—Nora Deligter, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2025
Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
Still, #mewing has been the subject of hundreds of thousands of videos on TikTok and YouTube — and the r/mewing community on Reddit consists of more than 60,000 members.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 26 June 2024
Cow elk communicate to other cows, as well as their calves, by mewing or chirping, another elk vocalization that can be heard for a significant distance.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
Cite this Entry
“Mew.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mew. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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mew
1 of 3 nounmew
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Old English mæw "gull"
Noun
Middle English mewen (verb) "meow"; a word imitating the sound of a cat
Noun
Middle English mewe "a cage for hawks," from early French mue (same meaning), from muer "to change, molt," from Latin mutare "to change"
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