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noun
The cry of a cat.
verb
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.