What's the difference between mewl and mewling?

Mewl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry, as a young child; to squall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With these new manfants suddenly taking the reins of power, being a pathetic mewling mess has become socially acceptable.
  • (2) We’re all in a relay race with the ghosts of the past and the mewling newborns, there’s no time to dawdle.” Looking round today, does she see any remnants of that spirit of punk and rebellion that first made her pick up a magazine and a scalpel in the 70s?
  • (3) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
  • (4) And we will hear the mewling of your followers, and we will rejoice in the lamentations of your German women.
  • (5) It can take several weeks before they will crawl or mewl, and up to 45 days before their eyes start to open.
  • (6) I mean, it's bad enough when Facebook friends have children and instantly change their profile picture to a baby photo, as though having regressed to mewling and puking infancy themselves.
  • (7) Everything is in place for this mewling infant of the internet to turn into a real force, if it chooses.

Mewling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mewl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With these new manfants suddenly taking the reins of power, being a pathetic mewling mess has become socially acceptable.
  • (2) We’re all in a relay race with the ghosts of the past and the mewling newborns, there’s no time to dawdle.” Looking round today, does she see any remnants of that spirit of punk and rebellion that first made her pick up a magazine and a scalpel in the 70s?
  • (3) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
  • (4) And we will hear the mewling of your followers, and we will rejoice in the lamentations of your German women.
  • (5) It can take several weeks before they will crawl or mewl, and up to 45 days before their eyes start to open.
  • (6) I mean, it's bad enough when Facebook friends have children and instantly change their profile picture to a baby photo, as though having regressed to mewling and puking infancy themselves.
  • (7) Everything is in place for this mewling infant of the internet to turn into a real force, if it chooses.

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