mue
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See mew.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mjuː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mju/
- Homophones: mew, mu
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb[edit]
mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)
- (transitive, obsolete) Alternative spelling of mew (“to moult”)
- 1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […], →OCLC, signature H3, recto:
- Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]
References[edit]
- “mue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /my/
- Homophones: mu, mû
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin mūtō, see the verb muer.
Noun[edit]
mue f (plural mues)
- moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
- metamorphosis (of insect)
- sloughing of skin (of reptile)
- casting (of stag)
- breaking of voice
- (literary) transformation
Verb[edit]
mue
- inflection of muer:
Etymology 2[edit]
See mouvoir
Participle[edit]
mue f sg
Further reading[edit]
- “mue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
mue
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of muar:
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Anglo-Norman mue.
Noun[edit]
mue
- Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old French muer.
Verb[edit]
mue
- Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)
- Alternative form of muge f
Anagrams[edit]
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