maw

maw (mô)

1. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.

2. The opening into something felt to be insatiable: "I saw the opening maw of hell" (Herman Melville).

[Middle English mawe, from Old English maga.]

maw [mɔː]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the mouth, throat, crop, or stomach of an animal, esp of a voracious animal

2. Informal the mouth or stomach of a greedy person

[Old English maga; related to Middle Dutch maghe, Old Norse magi]

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Noun

maw - informal terms for the mouth

cakehole, yap, gob, trap, hole

mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy"

maw

noun mouth, crop, throat, jaws, gullet, craw embed the hook in the shark's gaping maw

Translations

maw [mɔː] N

1. (Anat) → estómago m; [of cow etc] → cuajar m; [of bird] → molleja f, buche m

2. (fig) → fauces fpl

maw

(Anat) → Magen m; (of cow) → (Lab-)magen m; (of bird) → Hals m

(liter) → Maul nt; (fig) → Rachen m, → Schlund m

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cakehole
Dismaw
Fish maw
gob
gullet
hole
jaw
marzipan
Mawlamyine
Mawmet
Mawmetry
Mawmish
Mawseed
Mawworm
Moulmein
mouth
muslin
oral cavity
oral fissure

Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

It was their belief that if ever they weakened, the great beast would ingulf them and everything of beauty and wonder and joy and good in its cavernous and slime-dripping maw.

The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context

more: it seemed as if the whole ocean had been sucked up in the maw of the hurricane, and hurled on through that portion of space which previously had been occupied by the air.

South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context

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