Meow

Meow

"Meow", miaow, mew and others, are different spellings for one of the sounds made by cats. While cats occasionally vocalize to one another with purrs, growls, and screams, they generally communicate with one another through body language, and most communications we would recognize as "meow" are specifically for human interaction."Meow" may also refer to:

;Films:
* "The Cat's Meow", a 2002 American film

;Music:
* The Cat's Miaow, an Australian pop band
* Miou Miou, a Czech pop band
* Miaow (band), an English band
* "Miaow" (album), an album by The Beautiful South

;Surname
* Siobhan Meow, originally called Bill

;Other:
* Meow Mix, a brand of cat food
* "The Silent Miaow", a 1964 book by Paul Gallico
* "Apocalypse Meow", a 3-volume manga series originally published in Japan in 1998 as "Cat Shit One"
* "Let's Meow Meow!", an adult dating-sim video game translated from the Japanese "Mina de Nyan Nyan" (2003)
* "James v. Meow Media", a lawsuit filed in 1999 by families of three girls killed by Michael Carneal
* "O-Solar Meow" and Filet Meow, cartoons featuring Tom and Jerry
* "Kavan and Meow?", adapted screenplay from "Scholarworks & Co"

See also

* Miao (disambiguation)
* Hmong people, the Hmong people (Miao) of Southeast Asia

= Other languages =
* Bulgarian - _bg. мяу (miau)
* Chinese - _zh. 喵 (pinyin: miāo)
* Croatian - mijau
* Czech - mňau
* Danish - mjav
* Dutch - miauw
* Estonian - miau
* Finnish - miau
* French - miaou
* German - miau
* Hebrew - מיאו (mi-YA-oo)
* Hungarian - miáú, nyáú
* Icelandic - mjá
* Indonesian - meong
* Italian - miao
* Japanese - _ja. ニャン (nyan), _ja. ニャー (nyaa)
* Korean - yaong, nyaong, nyang
* Latvian - mjau
* Lithuanian - miau
* Polish - miau
* Portuguese - miau
* Romanian - miau
* Russian - _ru. мяу (miau)
* Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish - mjau
* Slovak - mňau
* Spanish - miau, marramiáu
* Tagalog - miyaw, nyaw
* Turkish - miyav
* Vietnamese - meo


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