Maw

Noun

 * 1)  the stomach, especially of an animal
 * 2) * 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X
 * So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
 * 1) the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.
 * 2) * 1818, Keats, Endymion
 * To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
 * 1) any great, insatiable or perilous opening.

Noun

 * 1)  Mother.

Thesaurus
abdomen, abomasum, bay window, bazoo, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, chaps, chops, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, embouchure, first stomach, gab, gizzard, gob, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, jaw, jaws, jowls, kishkes, kisser, lips, mandibles, manyplies, maxilla, midriff, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, omasum, oral cavity, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, premaxilla, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, trap, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, yap

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
From mawe:, from  maga:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch maag:, German Magen:, Swedish mage:, with Welsh megin:, Russian мошна:, Lithuanian makas:.

Etymology 2
By shortening of mother:

Noun

 * Catalan: estómac
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Anagrams

 * awm

Noun

 * 1) boy
 * 2) * Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
 * 3) ** I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.

Noun

 * 1) rain