): Jeannot ( Jonny ), from Jean ( John ); Pierrot ( Petey ) from Pierre ( Peter ); chiot ( puppy ), from chien ( dog ); fiston ( sonny or sonny-boy ), from fils ( son ); caneton ( he-duckling ), from canard ( duck or he-duck ); chaton ( kitten ), from chat ( cat ); minou ( kitty, presumably from the root for miauler, to meow ); Didou ( Didier ); Philou or Filou ( Philippe ).

She says " meow " (" nyan ") after almost every phrase she says, though she is the only cat who does this.

" Muddy Waters said of the album's sound, " That guitar sounds just like a cat — meow — and the drums have a loping, busy beat.

They are not a very vocal breed but will meow to communicate with their owners, for example when they are hungry and their food is being prepared.

An often used running gag is that catgirls habitually end their lines of speech with the phrase, the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow.

The name Mew is based on the onomatopoeia of a cat's cry, meow.

Its voice is milder in tone than the Siamese, whose distinctive meow is often likened to a duck's quack.

Ryan attempts to imitate his father's roar, but all he can manage is a squeaky meow.

After reuniting and learning the truth about his father, he soon found his roar ( back then all he could do is a squeaky meow ) after getting abducted by the wildebeest and heads back home with the others.

Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " ( a stupid person ); " for crying out loud " ( an exclamation of astonishment ); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " ( as superlatives ); " applesauce " ( nonsense ); " cheaters '" ( eyeglasses ); " skimmer " ( a hat ); " hard-boiled " ( a tough person ); " drugstore cowboy " ( loafers or ladies ' men ); " nickel-nurser " ( a miser ); " as busy as a one-armed paperhanger " ( overworked ); and " Yes, we have no bananas ," which was turned into a popular song.

The term " Nyan " or " nyaa " is a Japanese onomatopoeic word for a cat's meow.

They may also meow at their favourite toy as they play with it.

The serval also has a high-pitched chirp, and can hiss, cackle, growl, grunt, and meow.

Pixie-bobs are said to be highly intelligent, social, active ( but not hyper-active ), bold, and enjoy playing with other animals They are also known for their " chirps ", chatters, and growls ; most don't meow often, and some don't meow at all.

When the cats were put into the cages they would wander restlessly and meow, but they did not know how to escape.

She has a habit of randomly inserting " meow " into her words and sentences, although her vocabulary expanded considerably during the series.

When she was first introduced, she could only say " beautiful ," " telephone ," and " Mister Rogers " in addition to " meow " and she was almost completely black.

Mating calls are much louder, consisting of deep growls in the male, and loud " meow "- like sounds in the female.

On a scale that orders all words according to the correlation between their meaning and their sound, with the sound-imitating words like meow and whack at one end, and with the conventional words like water and blue at the other end, the phenomimes and the psychomimes would be somewhere in the middle.

* Episode 2: Mike challenges Ed to meow loud enough to make a guy sitting on a bench turn around.

In March 2010, her son Sean Ellman was exposed in the national newspapers as selling the then legal drug mephedrone, known as meow meow, from a chain of shops across the North of England.

Pussy must go over to a guest and meow three times.

This meow can be particularly annoying when they are trying to seek attention.

In the spring of meow, in Mary's 13th year, her father died of cancer.

", or " So much talking, want more eating, meow meow meow meow please please feed me.

Neither the caracal, sometimes called the Persian lynx or African lynx, nor the jungle cat, called the swamp lynx, is a member of the Lynx genus.

Mammoths once grazed in the Thurrock area and archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a jungle cat.

The smallest species is the sand cat, which may be less than in length, while the largest is the jungle cat, which can reach.

The jungle cat ( Felis chaus ) is a medium-sized cat native to Asia from southern China in the east through Southeast and Central Asia to the Nile Valley in the west.

Geographic variation in the jungle cat is quite considerable.

The most distinctive feature of a jungle cat is the presence of equal-sized claws on both fore and hind legs ( unlike those of common domestic cats, for example, where hind claws are normally longer and stronger than fore ).

Although never truly domesticated, a small number of jungle cats have been found among the cat mummies of Ancient Egypt ( the vast majority of which are domestic cats ), suggesting that they may have been used to help control rodent populations.

Today, the trinomial Felis chaus chaus still refers to the jungle cat subspecies living in the Caucasus, Turkestan, Iran, Baluchistan and Yarkand, Chinese Turkestan.

The jungle cat's main competitors are the jackal and forest cat.

When countered by a threat, the jungle cat will vocalize before engaging in attack, producing small roars, a behavior uncommon for domestic cats.

Some populations of jungle cat subspecies are declining in several countries and areas:

* Since the 1960s, populations of the Caucasian jungle cat living in the Cis-Caspian region, along the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus range states have been rapidly declining.

Cat breeders have been able to hybridize jungle cats with certain domestic cats, producing such breeds as the " chausie " ( Jungle cat × domestic cat ) and the " jungle bob " ( Jungle cat x pixie bob ).

Smaller felines in the park include the jungle cat, fishing cat and leopard cat.

The sambur buck, the jungle stag that is even more noble than the Scottish elk.

In 1965, members of the U. S. Congress were told " crop destruction is understood to be the more important purpose ... but the emphasis is usually given to the jungle defoliation in public mention of the program.

A tour with jungle units is a coveted assignment and is considered career-enhancing.

The island is a haven for several types of crustacean ; " warrior crabs " ( Cardisoma carnifex ) overrun the jungle at night.

There is also a tropical house, a jungle house, and a show arena.

Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

The jaguar hunts wild animals weighing up to 300 kg ( 660 lb ) in dense jungle, and its short and sturdy physique is thus an adaptation to its prey and environment.

The story is about a supernatural and ominous board game which makes animals and other jungle hazards appear upon each roll of the dice.

This habit of remaining motionless whilst in danger is successful only because of the leafy environment of their jungle home, which helps to conceal their true position.

* Gummidgy is a jungle world popular with hunters.

After passing the Pongo de Huaracayo ( or Guaracayo ), the cerros, or hills, gradually disappear, and for a distance of about the river is full of islands, and there is nothing visible from its low banks but an immense forest-covered plain known as the selva baja (" low jungle ") or Peruvian Amazonia, home to indigenous peoples such as the Urarina of the Chambira Basin, the Candoshi, and the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples.

This machete is issued with a 5-inch Bowie knife and a sharpening stone in the scabbard ; collectively called a " jungle kit " ( Conjunto de Selva in Portuguese ); it is manufactured by Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil ( IMBEL ).

The Nanay is one of the three rivers that surround the jungle city of Iquitos, making it an island.

The Republic of the Congo's sparse population is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the country, leaving the vast areas of tropical jungle in the north virtually uninhabited.

As Roger is being transported to the Labion labour mines as punishment for thwarting Sludge's original plan, the prison ship crash-lands in a nearby jungle upon the planet.

declaim that the world is an inherently competitive " dog eat dog " jungle, where every individual has to look out for himself.

The southern tip, known as the Cà Mau Peninsula is covered by dense jungle and mangrove swamps.

In the jungle, mainly non-human primates get infected ; the disease is mostly asymptomatic in African primates.

In Africa there is a third infectious cycle, also known as savannah cycle or intermediate cycle, which occurs between the jungle and urban cycle.

* January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam ; he had spent 28 years in the jungle.