maw

大学 FREQ #16242

n. (反刍动物的)第四胃, 嗉囊, (人的)胃

发音

UK /mɔː/
其它 /mɑ/
US /mɔ/

词形变化

maws 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The stomach, especially of an animal.

    古体 可数 不可数
  2. 2.

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

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The mouth.

    可数 贬义 俚语 不可数

    Shut your maw!

  4. 4.

    Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Appetite; inclination.

    废旧 不可数 可数
  6. 6.

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

    可数 不可数
  7. 1.

    Mother.

    非正式 方言
  8. 1.

    A gull.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

hole trap gob yap cakehole

上位词 2

mouth oral cavity

相关短语

maw worm 肠道寄生虫 maw worms maw shot maw shots hog maw

词源

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 mage (“stomach”), 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”).

来源：wiktionary