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mee-maw

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mee-maw¹

Where it comes from

Variant of meemaw (“grandmother”).

noun mee-maws

  1. alternative, informal Alternative form of meemaw, i.e. mamaw (grandmother). Well, sometimes mee-maws have things to do, like moms and little girls.

mee-maw²

Where it comes from

See meemaw (“to mouth”).

verb mee-maws · mee-mawing · mee-mawed

  1. To silently make exaggerated movements with the mouth so as to be understood in environment with loud noise, such as that of machinery. So we walked round and mee-mawed at one another. (Mee-mawing is mouthing words at each other without making a sound using exaggerated lip movements. This is the name the weavers, who use this technique all the time, give to it.)

noun mee-maws

  1. An exaggerated mouthing of a word.
  2. A meaningless utterance. Oh,” said Archie, “many folk would pay half-a-crown to see their mee-maws;” and this saying was overheard by a Papist standing by, who, in reporting the remark, was pleased to observe that she had always considered Archibald Wilson a Christian, and had respected him as such, until she heard him desc
  3. Scotland, slang A policeman.

mee-maw³

noun mee-maws

  1. The two-tone wailing of a siren. As the siren screamed it added to the mee-maws, sirens and cacophony of emergency vehicles rushing to the Hyde Park disaster site.

verb mee-maws · mee-mawing · mee-mawed

  1. To make the two-syllable wailing noise of a siren. It is nasal, screeching, yowling, mee-mawing, wailing—every sound excruciating to ears refined.

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@misc{mee_maw_2026,
  title = {mee-maw},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mee-maw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}