name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
maw
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /mɔː/
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General-American: /mɔ/
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cot-caught-merger: /mɑ/
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homophone: MAW
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homophone: more (non-rhotic accents)
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rhymes with -ɔː
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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UK: /mɔː/
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US: /mɔ/
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CMU ARPABET: M AO1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The stomach, especially of an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
The mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Examples
- Shut your maw!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trap, yap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Appetite; inclination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
Mother.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 9
A gull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
Initialism of model, actress, whatever: a young woman without much talent who attains celebrity through physical attractiveness
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, informal, initialism
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noun
Meaning 11
informal terms for the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trap, cakehole, hole, yap, gob
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *makô (“mate, relative”), comparable to modern match. * Also as an English surname, from archaic mew (“seagull”); compare the surname Mew. * Also as an English surname, from archaic maw (“belly”).
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”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”).
Variant of ma.
See mew (“a gull”), Norwegian måke (“a gull”)
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: qursaq — stomach
- Azerbaijani: qarın — stomach
- Bulgarian: сирище (sirište) — stomach
- Catalan: estómac — stomach
- Dutch: pens — stomach
- Dutch: maag — stomach
- Estonian: magu — stomach
- Estonian: kõht — stomach
- Finnish: maha — stomach
- German: Magen — stomach
- Italian: stomaco — stomach
- Italian: lampredotto — stomach
- Japanese: 第四胃 (dai yon i) — stomach
- Persian: گده (gade) — stomach
- Portuguese: estômago — stomach
- Portuguese: bucho — stomach
- Russian: брю́хо (brjúxo) — stomach
- Spanish: estómago — stomach
- Swedish: mage — stomach
- Tagalog: labot — stomach
- Turkish: karın — stomach
- Armenian: երախ (erax) — upper digestive tract
- Bulgarian: паст — upper digestive tract
- Czech: chřtán — upper digestive tract
- Czech: jícen — upper digestive tract
- Czech: tlama — upper digestive tract
- Finnish: kita — upper digestive tract
- French: gueule — upper digestive tract
- German: Schlund — upper digestive tract
- German: Rachen — upper digestive tract
- Italian: fauci — upper digestive tract
- Portuguese: goela — upper digestive tract
- Russian: пасть (pastʹ) — upper digestive tract
- Scottish Gaelic: sgròban — upper digestive tract
- Spanish: fauces — upper digestive tract
- Swedish: gap — upper digestive tract
- Tagalog: butse — upper digestive tract
- Czech: chřtán — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Czech: jícen — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Czech: tlama — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Esperanto: faŭko — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- German: Schlund — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Serbo-Croatian: ždrijelo — any great, insatiable or perilous opening
- Swedish: gap — any great, insatiable or perilous opening