maw

UK /mɔː/ US /mɔ/
noun 8name 1

Definitions

noun

1

The stomach, especially of an animal.

So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.

2

The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.

To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw

“I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.

3

The mouth.

Shut your maw!

She fumbled with her bag, and produced from its little maw a scented handkerchief.

4

Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.

Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.

One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.

5

Appetite; inclination.

Unless you had more maw to do me good.

noun

1

Mother.

noun

1

A gull.

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