Definitions for maw

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Spelling: [maw]
IPA: /mɔ/

Maw is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in maw (amw).

Definitions for maw

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 maw

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

Examples for maw

"That'll do, maw," she said, dismissing her parent with a nod.

Let them boil gently till the liquor is reduced to three pints, and strain it off; when only milk warm, pour it on the maw.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine.

He had come deliberately to thrust his head into the lion's maw that he might save her brother.

His eyes gleamed like two lamps and he was spitting fire and flame from his maw.

Having been caught red-handed with a smoking bong firmly pasted to his maw, the long knives are out for the Olympic hero.

The other is that people actually lose skills (even very basic skills) and many of them fall into the maw of depression.

Well, maw, as the fellow says in the circus, here we are again.

maw allowed you woz talkin' a furrin' tongue all along, but I—sakes alive!

Privately, they admit they have to provide the data that feed that maw.

Word Value for maw
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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