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Persian's comment
Answer for the clue "Persian's comment ", 3 letters:
mew
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Word definitions for mew in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen , of imitative origin (compare German miauen , French miauler , Italian miagolare , Spanish maullar , and see meow ). Related: Mewed ; mewing . As a noun from 1590s.
Usage examples of mew.
Here Art is no benignant goddess, but a Circe who turns her wooers into mewing Toms and Tabbies who linger about the doorsteps of her abode, unmindful of the flying brickbats and boot-jacks of the critics.
The eyases clung dully to their leashes, as if they were mewing, and seemed to have no wish to get rid of their rufter-hoods.
The women wore dull fashionless, rather than oldfashioned, coats and hats in black or grey or fawn, the mew even the young men, black suits topped by dark raincoats.
Then the king became impatient for there were other things to think about: there was just time to go to the mews to inspect one of his favorite gerfalcons, who was ailing, before he had to receive an emissary from Burgundy.
Ddafydd, os dygid ei gorff dros erchwyn gwely, neu trwy ddrws, neu os cleddid ef mewn mynwent, neu mewn Eglwys.
In which the half of humankind were mewed Victims of lust and hate, the slaves of slaves, She mourned that grace and power were thrown as food To the hyena lust, who, among graves, Over his loathed meal, laughing in agony, raves.
He does not mean to return to Marchant Mews, but curiosity draws him once he is close to the town centre.
Jeremy tries to imagine his students caring about the fate of Marchant Mews, even with the added inducement of a heritage centre.
The moral majority is alive and well and worrying about Marchant Mews.
Surveying his Marchant Mews empire, Jeremy has to admit that the chances of everything being finished in time are minimal.
Never were so many braying, upper-class accents heard in Marchant Mews.
At such moments he wishes that Alf had never introduced him to Marchant Mews.
She mewed, her hips lifting in instinctive supplication as he found her soft, silky female cleft, parted the quivering folds of flesh.
He mewed at the door leading to the anteroom, and was not astonished when it opened automatically.
Tail high, he went to the second door, mewed at it, and strode out into the passageway.