Maw

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The stomach, especially of an animal.

   “So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.”

2. isim The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.

   “To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw”

3. isim The mouth.

   “Shut your maw!”

4. isim Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.

   “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.”

5. isim Appetite; inclination.

   “Unless you had more maw to do me good.”

6. isim The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.

   “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[…]”

7. isim Mother.
8. isim A gull.
9. isim Initialism of model, actress, whatever: a young woman without much talent who attains celebrity through physical attractiveness

   “Tamara was one of the original wild-child tribe - up to now, famous mainly for being famous. She has done a quantity of high-profile dabbling in modelling, acting, television and journalism (file under MAW - Model, Actress, Whatever - or WAIF - Why Am I Famous?)”

10. özel isim A surname.