Maw

Word MAW
Character 3
Hyphenation maw
Pronunciations /mɔː/

Definitions and meanings of "Maw"

What do we mean by maw?

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

The opening into something felt to be insatiable. noun

A dialectal (Scotch) form of mow.

An old game at cards, played with a piquet pack of thirty-six cards by any number of persons from two to six. noun

A dialectal (Scotch) form of mew. noun

The stomach: now used of human beings only in contempt, and rarely of animals. noun

The crop or craw of a fowl. noun

The sound or air-bladder of a fish. noun

Stomach; appetite; inclination. noun

An old game at cards. noun

A gull. noun

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. noun

Appetite; inclination. noun

See under Fish. noun

Mother. noun

The stomach, especially of an animal noun

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

Any great, insatiable or perilous opening. noun

Informal terms for the mouth noun

The stomach, especially of an animal.

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

Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.

Appetite; inclination.

Scottish slang for "your mother" usually used as a quick retort to an insult. Urban Dictionary

Maw is a common Scottish word for mother, however it can be used in many other situations where "mum", would not be at all appropriate! Instead of saying "No, I don't agree with that", one can simply say "Aye, yer maw", and walk away - by far the superior choice for those busy those of us with have more pressing matters to attend to. Urban Dictionary

1. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore. 2. The opening into something felt to be insatiable Urban Dictionary

A word to say when there isn't anything else to say. The verbal alternative to lol Urban Dictionary

1) Might as Well 2) Mind as well Urban Dictionary

A large enclosed retail establishment where one see and be seen. One can also purchase beauty supplies and/or hair extensions. Urban Dictionary

Fuck me all night long Urban Dictionary

Milk that comes from a man's breasts. Urban Dictionary

Might as well Urban Dictionary

Scottish slang for "mother" Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Maw

The word "maw" in example sentences

His maw was the only one heard him walk the floor nights, and after he found, out she could hear him he walked in his socks. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

To do this is called maw-pak, and hence the game gets its name, maw-pak bae-ang. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing. your -- literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt. dung of ... solemn feasts -- The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests ❋ Unknown (1871)

Ah! that one has got hold of a tiny shrimp, and is tucking it into his hungry maw, which is just in the middle of its flower-like body. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Maw might be a bit archaic nowadays; in the Anglo-Saxon leechbooks "maw" seems to refer to the stomach more than the mouth, though I take it to mean the digestive tract from mouth to stomach. ❋ Richard Nokes (2005)

First he transferred Eddie's ammunition to his own person, and such valuables and trinkets as he thought "maw" might be glad to have, then he removed the breechblock from ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

If a man wants to be famous, he had much better try the advertising doctor than the terrible editor, whose waste-basket is a maw which is as insatiable as the temporary stomach of Jack the ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

If a man wants to be famous, he had much better try the advertising doctor than the terrible editor, whose waste-basket is a maw which is as insatiable as the temporary stomach of Jack the Giant-killer. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Hmmm. Crystal would receive points (if a point system had been used in the judging) for her use of the word 'maw'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My, but your maw is a woman to be proud of! "she said, hugging mother and patting her on the back. ❋ Unknown (1913)

You've got all of paw's relig'un an 'maw's brains, an' that's 'nuff said. " ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

"May thy trial in these last be over," answered Alwyn; "but the humble must console their state by thinking that the great have their trials too; and, as our homely adage hath it, 'That is not always good in the maw which is sweet in the mouth.' ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

That was on full display in August, when Italy tumbled into the maw of the crisis. ❋ Charles Forelle (2012)

I did however give my ideas on things that make a great blogger and examples of sites I thought were optimum (maw books and heylady. net). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The old man's head snapped back and both arms shot straight at Jaffron's pod as he simultaneiously released the word from his ever-expanding, tooth-deficient maw. ❋ Mark Flanagan (2011)

Designer Julian Crouch playfully conjured up the flats and machines of 18th-century set design and then upped the ante with witty animations and projections by 59 Productions to create forests, storms at sea, magic spells and the gaping maw of a monster. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2012)

For long stretches of the game, especially in the first period, instead of advancing forward from their own end into the maw of Tampa's defense, the Flyers did nothing. ❋ Mike Sielski (2011)

person1- you suck Dick Person2- aye [yer maw's] dick. I wiz shaggin [yer maw]. [Yer Maw's] Muff smells like tuna. ❋ Dickzilla (2004)

1. "[Your maw] is braw (tasty/[babelicious])" 2. Person 1. "Naw, yer fish" 3. Person 2. "Naw [yer maw]" (person 2 clearly wins the argument, it's easy when you know how) ❋ Stranger (2004)

2. “I saw the [opening] maw [of hell]” ([Herman Melville]) ❋ TkWolf (2004)

online: person1: .... person2: [lol] [In real life]: person1: .... person2: [MAW]!! ❋ Captain Salvador (2007)

[I don't want to] study for this [exam], maw [skip it]. ❋ Gambit972 (2008)

I saw yo [sisa] at [da] maw, and she be [coolin] with her chilluns. ❋ Bluntedboy (2004)

❋ Bitch/nigger (2003)

[Ha ha], you just drank maw. Whats maw? Milk that comes from a [man's] [tities]. ❋ HypeM.poindexter (2010)

do you want to go to the [pub]? no i have work to do... but you maw[yeh] i [spose] ❋ Chocolatecoatedraisinboy (2011)

[Yer] (your) [maw] is really cool. [John's] maw is stunnin' (stunning) ❋ Michael Wales (2005)

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