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Word entry · 3 letters

maw

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3 lettersPronunciation /mɔː/Part of speech nounSorted amwStarts with MEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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