i Register
In some senses, maw is marked as archaic, derogatory, slang, obsolete, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
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.
The mouth.
Shut your maw!
She fumbled with her bag, and produced from its little maw a scented handkerchief.
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.
Appetite; inclination.
Unless you had more maw to do me good.
noun
Mother.
noun
A gull.