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maw | throat | Synonyms |

Maw is a synonym of throat.


As nouns the difference between maw and throat

is that maw is (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal or maw can be (dialect|colloquial) mother or maw can be a gull while throat is the front part of the neck.

As a verb throat is

(obsolete) to utter in the throat; to mutter.

maw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mawe, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost, Book X
    • So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw .
  • the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.
  • * 1818 , , Endymion
    • To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
  • any great, insatiable or perilous opening.
  • Appetite; inclination.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Unless you had more maw to do me good.

    Etymology 2

    By shortening of mother

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

    • Etymology 3

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gull.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    throat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The front part of the neck.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=(Emerson Hough)
    • , title= The Purchase Price, chapter=1 , passage=Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
  • The gullet or windpipe.
  • A narrow opening in a vessel.
  • Station throat.
  • The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  • (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
  • (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
    • (Totten)
  • (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  • (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

    • Synonyms

    * (gullet) esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British) * (windpipe) trachea, windpipe * (narrow opening in a vessel) neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

    Derived terms

    * clear one's throat * cutthroat * deepthroat * Deep Throat * frog in one's throat * have a frog in one's throat * jump down someone's throat * sore throat * station throat * stick in one's throat * throaty * whitethroat

    Related terms

    * throttle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
    • to throat threats
    (Chapman)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

    • External links

    * ("throat" on Wikipedia) * * *