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Webster 1913 Edition

Maw

Maw

(ma̤)
,
Noun.
[See
Mew
a gull.]
(Zool.)
A gull.

Maw

,
Noun.
[OE.
mawe
, AS.
maga
stomach; akin to D.
maag
, OHG.
mago
, G.
magen
, Icel.
magi
, Sw.
mage
, Dan.
mave
. √103.]
1.
A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; – now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.
Chaucer.
Bellies and
maws
of living creatures.
Bacon.
2.
Appetite; inclination.
[Obs.]
Unless you had more
maw
to do me good.
Beau. & Fl.
Fish maw
.
(Zool.)
See under
Fish
.

Maw

,
Noun.
An old game at cards.
Sir A. Weldon.

Webster 1828 Edition

Maw

MAW

, n.
1.
The stomach of brutes; applied to the stomach of human beings in contempt only.
2.
The craw of fowls.

Definition 2024

maw

maw

See also: MAW, maw-, and mąw-

English

Noun

maw ‎(plural maws)

  1. (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X
      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.
    • 1818, John Keats, Endymion
      To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
  3. any great, insatiable or perilous opening.
  4. Appetite; inclination.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      Unless you had more maw to do me good.
Translations

Etymology 2

By shortening of mother

Noun

maw ‎(plural maws)

  1. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

Etymology 3

See mew ‎(“a gull”).

Noun

maw ‎(plural maws)

  1. A gull.

Anagrams

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæʊ/

Noun

maw m

  1. boy
    • Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
      • I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.

Synonyms

Mapudungun

Noun

maw ‎(using Unified Alphabet)

  1. rain

Etymology

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”), archaic Russian мошна́ ‎(mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas ‎(“purse”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɔː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɔ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /mɑ/
  • Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

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