Definition of "mewling" [mewling]

• A sound that mewls. (noun)
• Present participle of mewl. (verb)

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• "The best part of Benedict’s pathetic mewling is his claim that it was his bold artistic insight — which he had to fight those Hollywood suits to keep intact! — to make Starbuck a womanizing rogue (but not really that much of one, as I remember it)."
• "Then a row of about twenty-five as hangdog-looking Bedouins as were ever strung up in the Valley of Jehoshaphat began a kind of mewling cry, such as a rat would make in a trap."
• "Maybe Petey when I found him all hurt and mewling, before I turned him."