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- verb Present participle of
mew .
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Examples
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It looks like the Dorothy early-morning mewing is abating.
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I could imitate many sounds, such as mewing of a cat, the barking, howling and growling of a dog, &c.
A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee Alias, Wm. Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians Lewis Leonidas 1848
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Hunger hurt her, and hurt her meagre breasts that should have been full for the seven feeble and mewing little ones, replicas of her save that their eyes were not yet open and that they were grotesquely unsteady on their soft, young legs.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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I'm going to send that pic to that lesbian who was mewing about the BoothBabes, telling her "there, now you have males exposing themselves too, RU happy now?" hahahahahah. .hohohohoho.it's a classic!!
Best Gun Dog Contest 2009
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I could hear the women weeping, one of them making a piteous mewing sound.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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I'm going to send that pic to that lesbian who was mewing about the BoothBabes, telling her "there, now you have males exposing themselves too, RU happy now?" hahahahahah. .hohohohoho.it's a classic!!
Best Gun Dog Contest 2009
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Those little beggars hang round the skip after hours, mewing and licking themselves till I dump out a greasy pile of fish.
Hiccup Susan Rukeyser 2011
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I'm going to send that pic to that lesbian who was mewing about the BoothBabes, telling her "there, now you have males exposing themselves too, RU happy now?" hahahahahah. .hohohohoho.it's a classic!!
Best Gun Dog Contest 2009
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My sister might as well have been mewing and lifting her tail.
The Probability of Him Jen Knox 2011
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I'm going to send that pic to that lesbian who was mewing about the BoothBabes, telling her "there, now you have males exposing themselves too, RU happy now?" hahahahahah. .hohohohoho.it's a classic!!
Best Gun Dog Contest 2009
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Mewing is named after the British orthodontists Dr John Mew and his son, Dr Mike Mew.
Mewing: what is the YouTube craze that claims to reshape your face? Dream McClinton 2021
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In 2018, after years in obscurity, orthotropics (rebranded by incels as “mewing”) leapt into the mainstream, the subject of discussion on alternative-health forums and beauty vlogs.
How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels By 2020
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They tried jelqing (penis-stretching exercises) and mewing (chewing hard foods to bulk up the masseter muscles, said by British orthodontist Mike Mew to augment the jawline).
How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid? Alice Hines 2019
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The practice of mewing involves keeping the tongue on the roof of the mouth, the maxilla
Mewing: what is the YouTube craze that claims to reshape your face? Dream McClinton 2021
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The phrase is associated with the Tiktok trend for “mewing” (putting the tongue on the roof of the mouth to make the face look more “sculpted”), and with hundreds of face yoga apps, creams, Jade rollers, sling-like facemasks for the jaw and electrical devices that claim to temporarily lift skin using light therapy.
‘Snatched jawline’: how the chin became fashion’s new pressure point Hannah Marriott 2023
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In a bizarre clash of cultures, mewing is named after an orthodontist from Kent who is well into his 90s.
From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces Simon Usborne 2024
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He began to learn a strange code that members used to compare their characteristics: IPDs (interpupillary distance, the gap between the eyes); canthal tilt (the angles of the eyes); mewing (a tongue exercise that supposedly improves the shape of the jaw).
From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces Simon Usborne 2024
tankhughes commented on the word mewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zehSJgE8Y This is from looksmaxxing, an unhealthy set of trends to try to change the jaw and face shape that began in incel forums.
Mewing is also now used as a student excuse for not listening in class "sorry teacher I was too busy mewing." Is now used by kids without knowledge of incel origins.
Related terms: mogging, jelqing (nsfw), bonesmashing, hunter eyes.
July 29, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word mewing
named after orthodontist Dr John Mew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewing_(orthotropics)
September 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word mewing
List of fan-suggested "fixes" to Pokemon designs ends with giving a jawline to Chewtle: "he's mewing" https://youtube.com/shorts/CPU81fgGx3o
October 16, 2024