Citations:onomatopœical

Adjective:

 * 1864, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and his Folklore, Asher and Co.; Volume III, page #107:
 * To bring out the name of Malkin, minus the German diminutive chen, or ken, we must refer to the miaul, or maul, which seems but an onomatopœical version of the peculiar cry of the cat, as mewing, or, better provincially, miauing.