maw

noun10

1. •
   The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal.

   • “I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair. — 1851
2. •
   (slang) The mouth and jaws of a furry.

   • […] / As you lift your shirt I'm closer / grab me by the maw into your arm- // […] / Sniff it with my maw I / […] / Smelling all of you its / […] / Getting me hard gimme more / […] / more more — 2025
3. •
   (slang, disapproving) The mouth.

   • Shut your maw!
4. •
   (figurative) 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. — 1981
5. •
   The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.

   • Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like sturgeon. Fish maw has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients. — 2009
6. •
   (dialect, informal) Mother.
7. •
   (slang) A person from a rural area of the Isle of Lewis, i.e. outwith Stornoway; a country bumpkin.
8. •
   A gull.
9. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1667
10. •
    (no longer used) Appetite; inclination.

    • Unless you had more maw to do me good. — 1607

noun1

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

   • Through his Hollywood connections he filled out the ranks of our parties with troops of assorted aspiring starlets, production assistants and thrillseeking party dolls—MAWs (“Model/Actress/Whatever”). — 2013