Maw definition

mô

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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(archaic) The stomach, especially of an 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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The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.

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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

Singular:

maw

Plural:

maws

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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