maw

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /mɔː/    美 /mɔ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The stomach, especially of an animal. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
  2. Mother. colloquial,dialectal
  3. A gull.
  4. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw. countable,uncountable
    — To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
  5. The mouth. countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable
    — Shut your maw!
  6. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. countable,uncountable
    — Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
  7. Appetite; inclination. obsolete,uncountable
    — Unless you had more maw to do me good.
  8. The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine. countable,uncountable
    — fish maw: The buoyancy bladder of a fish similar in appearance to the mammalian lung. The maw of the conger pike is used in Chinese cooking and is usually sold in dried form which needs reconstituting for about 3 hours and treating with[…]

词形变化

maws plural maws plural maws plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hog maw mawed maw-gut maw-worm

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Variant of ma.
词源 3
See mew (“a gull”),
Norwegian måke (“a gull”)
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