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"word": "maw-gut"
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"2": "мошна́",
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"2": "mãkas",
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"etymology_text": "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”).\nCognates\nCognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,\nNorwegian mage (“stomach”), Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).",
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"(archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal."
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"ref": "2017, “Deluminate”, performed by Full of Hell",
"text": "Once more, we're thrust\nInto the vacuum of God's yawning maw",
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{
"ref": "2022, “Nevermore”, performed by Lamb of God",
"text": "The rapacious maw of our despair",
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "erax",
"sense": "upper digestive tract",
"word": "երախ"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
"word": "kita"
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Rachen"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "upper digestive tract",
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"feminine",
"plural"
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"word": "fauci"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "upper digestive tract",
"word": "goela"
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"roman": "pastʹ",
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"feminine"
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"text": "Shut your maw!",
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"(slang, derogatory) The mouth."
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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 23",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2011 October 11, “Jumping Jack Flash (Live 1973)” (track 14), in Brussels Affair (Live 1973), performed by The Rolling Stones",
"text": "One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.",
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"Any large, insatiable or perilous opening."
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"ref": "1998, Charles Gordon Sinclair, International Dictionary of Food and Cooking, Taylor & Francis, page 203",
"text": "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[…]",
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{
"ref": "2009 April 28, Teresa M. Chen, A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, North Atlantic Books, page 70",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2010 08, Eddie Dowd, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Fertility Treatment, Paragon Publishing, page 150",
"text": "Fish maw (swim bladder) is easily obtainable from your local fishmonger[.]",
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},
{
"ref": "2020 May 12, K. Gopakumar, Balagopal Gopakumar, Health Foods from Ocean Animals, CRC Press, page 172",
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"homophone": "more (non-rhotic accents)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-maw.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-maw.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-maw.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-maw.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-maw.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
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