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Tabby's plaint
Answer for the clue "Tabby's plaint ", 5 letters:
miaow
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow , mew , miaou ] v. make a cat-like sound [syn: miaou ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cat miaows/mews (= makes a small noise ) â–ª The cat was miaowing outside the door.
Usage examples of miaow.
Mitchel, with the help of her crutch and of Fanfreluche, who miaowed loud enough to be heard twenty miles off, called upon all the millers of the land, and commanded them to bring together at a certain time as many sacks of fine flour as they could grind in a week.
The gray cat came out of the barn shed and trotted miaowing toward the fire, but, nearly there, it turned and went directly to one of the little piles of rabbit entrails on the ground.
Erigeron and his squad-mate leave Silene bowed over his silent flute, the cat miaowing anxiously at his feet.
But when Maigret bent down, it moved quickly away and miaowed at him from a few feet farther on.
Margo gave Miaow to Paul to hold while she took the things out of the Little Man's hands and sketched the Wanderer for him, imitating his diagrammatic style.
His ten-kilo Maine Coon cat Marcel LaPlume IX stalked into the room and uttered a faint, high-pitched miaow.
She was caressing Miaow, but now the little cat drew away from the velvet-padded, three-fingered hand and bent her hind legs against the violet-barred, green-furred shoulder, and sprang off across Paul into the flowerbank beyond him—presumably to re-explore it by the mysterious ice-sent twilight.