maw
noun/mɔː/
/mɔː/
- (literary) something that seems like a big mouth that swallows something up completely
- They drove into the maw of the city.
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- (old-fashioned) an animal’s stomach or throat
Word OriginOld English maga (in the sense ‘stomach’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach’.
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