Do you use the word meowing or mewing?

I say meow - but the boys dont, Bumper sound more like blurb, Magnum chirps, Boomer would be the closest to meow with his whine and Scullys is too hard to describe but it sounds like someone is killing him!

I say meowing when I'm talking about older cats and mewing with kittens.

Originally Posted by stormy

I say meowing when I'm talking about older cats and mewing with kittens.

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...or I just call it talking.

I say meowing

I say meowing when talking about it in general, but Geisha actually does mew (very high-pitched, too), while Kuri actually makes loud MEOOWWs or whines.

I say crying

Well, dictionary.com has the same definition for both of them and in addition to that, "mew" has "meow" as well. So technically, they're the same. The first time I heard someone say mew, was my roommate. I thought it was something different so I looked it up and it's not.

Cupid doesn't really meow. He's really quiet, so most of the time when he opens his mouth to meow, I just hear his mouth opening.

I voted meow, but I do use mew sometimes. Usually referring to kittens or scared cats.

I say meow, 99% of the time.

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Meowing.

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

Depends entirely on the cat and the circumstance.

On the whole, regular "speech" tends to be "meow" or as variation on that theme. "Mew" pertains more to kittens, and babyish behaviour. And then there's Fawn, whose speech is a breathy squeak most of the time -- not something I've ever heard from any other cat.

Can't vote.

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Meowing for cats and mewing for little kittens. (Not saying that`s the correct way to use the words...just would be the way I would use them.
Linda