Definitions
informal terms for the mouth
Word origin
From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”).
Used in a sentence
“So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.”
“To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw”
““I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Open jaws”3 letters
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