maw
The upper digestive tract, especially the mouth and jaws of an animalThe upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal.
» The food disappeared into the beast's maw.
Значение
значений: 10(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal.
Schlund, Rachen
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The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal.
(исчисляемое, сленг, неисчисляемое)The mouth and jaws of a furry.
informal terms for the mouth
(исчисляемое, пренебрежительное, сленг, неисчисляемое)The mouth.
Shut your maw!
(исчисляемое, переносно, неисчисляемое)Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
Schlund
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
(разговорное, диалектное)Mother.
A gull.
(Lewis, сленг)A person from a rural area of the Isle of Lewis, i.e. outwith Stornoway; a country bumpkin.
(устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Appetite; inclination.
(архаичное, исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)The stomach, especially of an animal.
Примеры
предложений: 3The food disappeared into the beast's maw.
The black hole pulls the hapless star into its maw.
The sale of Nile Perch fish maw in Uganda has become a lucrative business, especially for distributors.
Переводы
языков: 6По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-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”).
Variant of ma.
See mew (“a gull”),
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Формы
мн. число: mawsСинонимы
синонимов: 5Антонимы
антонимов: 1Однокоренные
связанных слов: 6Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Исчисляемые и неисчисляемые существительные — Потому что оно может быть неисчисляемым