MAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maw mean? 

• MAW (noun)
  The noun MAW has 1 sense:

1. informal terms for the mouth

  Familiarity information: MAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cakehole; gob; hole; maw; trap; yap

Hypernyms ("maw" is a kind of...):

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)

 Context examples 

Had it but been for myself the choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than the grave of the Vampire!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew that the opening of safes was a particular hobby with him, and I understood the joy which it gave him to be confronted with this green and gold monster, the dragon which held in its maw the reputations of many fair ladies.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Had it been a well wolf, it would not have mattered so much to the man; but the thought of going to feed the maw of that loathsome and all but dead thing was repugnant to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)