mewl \myool\, verb:
To cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
When Celia was growing up, her father had taken in a stray kitten, an avid hunter who – by the time Celia had left for college – still had not gotten over a formative, stray-life trauma that compelled it to mewl between mouthfuls of food.
-- Myla Goldberg, The False Friend
They have mouths that twitch, and eyes that stare, and they babble and they mewl and they whimper.
-- Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
Mewl is an imitative word that mimics the sound of a whimper.
哭了,作為一個嬰兒,幼兒,或像嗚咽。
當西莉亞長大,她的父親已在流浪的小貓,一個狂熱的獵人誰 - 時間西莉亞離開大專 - 仍未得到過形成,流浪生活的創傷,迫使它的食物之間的幾口mewl 。
- 米拉戈德堡,虛假的朋友
他們有口,抽搐,眼睛凝視,和他們喋喋不休和他們mewl的,他們嗚咽。
“ - 內爾吉曼,霧裡看花
mewl是模仿的字,模仿的嗚咽聲。
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