meemaw (English, verb)
expansion: meemaw (third-person singular simple present meemaws, present participle meemawing, simple past and past participle meemawed)
Senses:
glosses: To mouth words so that they can be heard over noise (or later so that they cannot be overheard), originally in the cotton industry of Lancashire.
tags: UK
dialectal
intransitive
Forms:
form: meemaws
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meemawing
tags: participle
present
form: meemawed
tags: participle
past
form: meemawed
tags: past