miaul

noun

1. (dated)The cry of a cat.

verb

1. (dated, intransitive)To give the cry of a cat.

   “"or Lady Penelope is miauling like a starved cat !"”

   “It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.”