Maw Definition

mô
noun
The stomach or its cavity.
Webster's New World
The stomach of an animal; specif., the fourth stomach of a cud-chewing animal.
Webster's New World
The throat, gullet, jaws, or oral cavity of a voracious animal.
Webster's New World
The opening into something felt to be insatiable.
American Heritage
Anything thought of as consuming, devouring, etc. without end.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Maw

Noun

Singular:
maw
Plural:
maws

Origin of Maw

  • 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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English mawe from Old English maga

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • By shortening of mother

    From Wiktionary

  • See mew (“a gull").

    From Wiktionary

Maw Sentence Examples

  • It is true, a breeze comes from the cave 's maw, its odor organic but not the stench of decay.

  • These it stuffed whole into its great maw, revealing a multitude of ragged teeth.

  • A dusty little park named for him disappeared into the gaping maw of a new Fort Washington Way.

  • Etna, Etna, who dances better than I pirouetting above your fearsome maw bellowing a thousand meters below?

  • Instead, they are sucked into the hungry maw of the Dark and utterly destroyed.

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