Definitions for maws

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maws maw

Spelling: [maw]

IPA: /mɔ/

Maws is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in maws (amsw).

Definitions for maws

noun

1. the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.
2. the crop or craw of a fowl.
3. the stomach, especially that of an animal.
4. a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal:
5. the symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind:
6. mother1 .

Origin of maws

before 900; Middle English mawe, Old English maga; cognate with Dutch maag, German Magen, Old Norse magi

Examples for maws

He brandished the shovel with which he had been shamefully forced to feed the maws of the furnaces.

I have often found it, he adds, in the maws of the bonito, between the tropics in the Pacific Ocean.

If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.

Those who formed it have found bloody graves, or a ghastlier burial in the maws of wolves.

We always find a great many shells in their maws, crushed in pieces.

O, sir, have a good stomach and maws; you shall have a joyful supper.

You see Teacher makes 'em all come on moonlight nights; the paws and maws, and the gran'paws and gran'maws, too.

My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites!

He saw many salmon leaping, and found them in the maws of cod.

Guess Ive got maws fool in a fuss, he said grimly to himself as he braced his body for a struggle.