maw
pronunciation
How to pronounce maw in British English:
UK [mɔ:]
How to pronounce maw in American English:
US [mɔ]
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- Noun:
- informal terms for the mouth
Word Origin
- maw (n.)
- Old English maga "stomach" (of men and animals; in Modern English only of animals unless insultingly), from Proto-Germanic *magon "bag, stomach" (cognates: Old Frisian maga, Old Norse magi, Danish mave, Middle Dutch maghe, Dutch maag, Old High German mago, German Magen "stomach"), from PIE *mak- "leather bag" (cognates: Welsh megin "bellows," Lithuanian makas, Old Church Slavonic mošina "bag, pouch"). Meaning "throat, gullet" is from 1520s. Metaphoric of voracity from late 14c.
Example
- 1. War swallowed up many young men into its maw .
- 2. Is that maw maw underneath the car ?
- 3. You rush headlong into the maw of madness !
- 4. Ba maw was declared head of state and his cabinet included aung sang .
- 5. I am admiral daala , in charge of the fleet guarding maw installation . You three are in a lot of trouble .