maw

Meanings

1. The stomach, especially of an animal.
2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
3. The mouth.
4. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
5. Appetite; inclination.
6. The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.

1. Mother.

1. A gull.

1. Initialism of model, actress, whatever: a young woman without much talent who attains celebrity through physical attractiveness

1. A surname.

Etymology

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”).