Maw definition
Anything thought of as consuming, devouring, etc. without end.
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(dial.) Ma; mama; mother.
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The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.
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(archaic) The stomach or its cavity.
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The stomach of an animal; specif., the fourth stomach of a cud-chewing animal.
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(dialect, colloquial) Mother.
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The throat, gullet, jaws, or oral cavity of a voracious animal.
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Appetite; inclination.
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The opening into something felt to be insatiable.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
maw
Plural:
mawsOrigin of maw
- Middle English mawe from Old English maga
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English mawe, from Old English maga (“stomach, maw"), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly, stomach"), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly"). Cognate with West Frisian mage, Low German mage, Dutch maag (“stomach, belly"), German Magen (“stomach"), Danish mave, Swedish mage (“stomach, belly"), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows"), Russian мошна (moÅ¡ná, “pocket, bag"), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse").
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- By shortening of mother
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- See mew (“a gull").
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