mee-maw

Alternative form of meemaw, i.e. mamaw (grandmother).

Well, sometimes mee-maws have things to do, like moms and little girls.

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.)

On working days weavers who had jobs were already mee-mawing across the racket of looms as the van delivered and in hot weather, with weaving shed doors open, the sound bombarded the streets.

An exaggerated mouthing of a word.

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 describe the ceremonies of her church as "mee-maws!"

Hang you, sir," retorted Pengraig, " you make me mad with your mee-maws and your prickings of him.

A policeman.