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mawn.1

Brit. /mɔː/, U.S. /mɔ/, /mɑ/
Forms: Old English maga, Old English mage, Middle English mæȝa, Middle English mæȝe, Middle English maȝe, Middle English magh, Middle English maghe, Middle English mahe, Middle English mahge, Middle English mahȝe, Middle English mau, Middle English maue, Middle English maugh, Middle English mawee, Middle English–1600s 1800s– mawe (English regional), Middle English– maw, 1800s– ma (English regional), 1800s– maa (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– maw, pre-1700 1700s– mawe, 1900s– maawe.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian maga, Middle Dutch māghe (Dutch maag), Middle Low German māge, Old High German mago (Middle High German mage, German Magen), Old Icelandic magi, Swedish mage, Danish mave, and perhaps further with Welsh megin bellows, Old Church Slavonic mošĭna bag, pouch, Russian mošna pouch, Lithuanian makas purse, pouch.
1.
a. The stomach of an animal or (now British regional or humorous) of a person. Formerly also: spec. †the abomasum or fourth stomach of a ruminant (obsolete). †to close the maw: to relieve diarrhoea (obsolete). †to chaw one's maw: to fret, be consumed with envy or anxiety (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > stomach
maweOE
proventriculus1875
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]
maweOE
wombOE
codc1275
cropc1325
gut1362
stomachc1374
bellyc1375
pauncha1393
flanka1398
heartc1400
kitchen?a1500
kytec1540
micklewame1566
craw1574
ventricle1574
pudding house1583
buck1607
wame1611
ventricule1677
ventriculus1710
victualling-office1751
breadbasket1753
haggis1757
haggis bagc1775
baggie1786
pechan1786
manyplies1787
middle piece1817
inner man1856
inner woman1857
tum-tum1864
tum1867
tummy1867
keg1887
stummick1888
kishke1902
shit-bag1902
Little Mary1903
puku1917
Maconochie1919
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > stomach
reedeOE
maweOE
craw1574
ventricle1575
gizzard1776
rud1841
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach > fourth
reedeOE
maweOE
roddikin1512
earning bag1611
cheeselip-bag1615
abomasus1668
abomasum1678
cheeselip skin1788
rennet stomach1840
rud1841
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 111/1 Stomachum, maga.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 4 (table of contents) Læcedomas wiþ þam miclan gicþan & hu he cymð of acolodum magan.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 173 Uentriculum, mage.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 176 Stomachus, maga.
?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) cxii. 87 Wið mæȝen sare, nim þisse wyrt seaw.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 188 An wes iwunet for his calde mahe to nutten hate speces.
?a1300 Vision St. Paul (Digby) 148 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1879) 62 404/2 (MED) Gripes freteþ hoere mawen.
c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 486 Who kepte Ionas in the fisshes mawe Til he was spouted vp at Nunyuee?
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. 218 The man that muche hony eet his mawe hit engleymeth.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 18 Take þe Mawes of Turbut, Haddok, or Codelyng.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 39 Þe grete wombe of þe Schepe, þat is, the mawe.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ii Mylke creme & Iouncat they wyll close the mawe and so dooth a posset.
1560 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Life (rev. ed.) sig. Eiiv The mawe of an olde cocke dried, and made in pouder, is exceding good to drink in red wine.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 354 Euery tenth man being by lot tithed to the shambles, and more returning in their fellowes mawes, then on their owne legges.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 72 If Charnell houses, and our Graues must send Those that we bury, backe; our Monuments Shall be the Mawes of Kytes. View more context for this quotation
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer i. f. 20 She taught poore people how to fill their mawes, With Bramble-berries, Hedge-picks, Hips, & Hawes.
1708 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected (ed. 2) 102 It's a plain Symptom that his Maw's out of Order.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Abomasus The Abomasus, popularly call'd the Maw, is the last [of the four stomachs of ruminants].
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 14 Scald the Maw or Paunch [of the turtle].
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II xxxiv. 136 Fright cured the qualms Of all the luckless landsmen's sea-sick maws.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xv. 239 The night-hawk has filled his ravenous maw.
1861 J. Pycroft Agony Point (1862) 381 A shark with a sailor's baccy-box in his maw.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. ix. 157 Whenas the Cyclops had filled his mighty maw,..Then adown in the den he laid him.
a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 58/2 [Northumb.] While stuffing full your...maws.
1976 New Yorker 26 Jan. 40/3 A souper of boiled-liver chunks, macaroni, pig's maw, beef kidney, and rice.
1999 Bon Appétit Feb. 102/1 The salted pig's trotters, and the pig's ears and twisty tails and hog maw, are for sale.
b. In figurative context.Often very close to sense 3 in later use.
ΚΠ
c1390 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 1190 Ther is but litil Latyn in my mawe.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 134 Thow shalt not..withdrawe, Ȝif eny myrth be founden in thy mawe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D4 But inwardly he chawed his owne maw At neibors welth.
1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon vi. sig. C7 The wide mawes of more scopious lakes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. iv. 53 Then they could smile, and fawne vpon his debts, And take downe th'Intrest into their glutt'nous Mawes . View more context for this quotation
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 403 Time..whose Maw hath devoured the very Ruines of those stately Piles [etc.].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 991 Death shall..with us two Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw . View more context for this quotation
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 46 Pluckt from foul Devastation's famisht Maw.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 166 Yellow Jack had filled his maw, and left the rest of us alone.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths III. 25 It is only the prison's maw that is never full.
1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe & Other Georgian Sketches 216 I ain't fin' out den w'at war wuz—I ain't know w'at a great big maw she got.
†c. figurative. The inaccessible interior of a country. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 81 Some of the Rajahs yeelded, others flying to retyrements impregnable, lay in the Mawe of the countrey [etc.].
†2. Any of various other internal organs or parts of a person or animal.
a. The chest. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [noun] > chest
heartOE
breastOE
maw?a1200
thoraxc1400
venter1668
pectus1684
breastie1786
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 31 Ad strictum pectus..nim uentuosam and leȝe under þa earmes and anbutan þane mæȝen.
b. The abdominal cavity as a whole; the belly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] > abdomen
wombeOE
mawc1325
belly1340
miracha1400
wame14..
abdomen?1541
visceral cavity1846
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6363 (MED) Here is þat knif..þat ich broȝte him wiþ of dawe, & smot in þoru þe foundement & so in to þe mawe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 22394 (MED) All þe filthes of his maugh [a1400 Fairf. magh, a1400 Gött. mau] Sal brist vte at his hindwin.
1482 Monk of Evesham 85 The maw and inwarde bowels of him yat sate in the sadelle were sore smyt thorow.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 119 (MED) Yee, the dewill in thi maw, so tariand.
c. The liver. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver
livereOE
mawa1382
fee14..
separatory1656
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxix. 22 The fatt calle of þe maw.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 330 Maw, jecur.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4508 Cupido has þe custodi & cure of þe mawe.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 749/16 Hec jecur, a maw.
c1530 New Notborune Mayd (c1535) sig. Aiiv My herte and mawe To rent and drawe..Cheseth not he?
d. The womb. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > womb
wombeOE
innethc888
bosom971
bitc1000
motherc1300
cloisterc1386
mawc1390
flanka1398
marisa1400
matricea1400
clausterc1400
mater?a1425
matrix?a1425
wamec1425
bellyc1440
oven?1510
bermother1527
child's bed1535
bairn-bedc1550
uterus1615
kelder1647
ventera1656
childbed1863
c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 316 Whon seint Thomas was in hire mawe.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 12 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 266 (MED) Fra maghe ofe mi moder me keped þou.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lvii. 3 Aliend ere synful fra maghe [v.r. marice].
1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly xxix. 12 Florella's wombe is full... Such fulnesse of her Mawe, so made her swell.
e. The honey stomach of a bee. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > honey-making apparatus
maw1577
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 180v Being sucked vp from the leaues by the Bees, and digested in theyr mawes.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iv. sig. D5 You shal never find his [sc. the Drone's] maw without a good drop of the purest nectar.
f. The crop of a bird. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > crop
cropc1000
craw1388
maw1586
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxix. 264 The Chalydony, or swallow stone, found in the mawes of young swallowes.
1606 F. Holyoake Dictionarium Etymologicum ii, in Riders Dict. (new ed.) Chelidonij,..little stones found in the mawe of a swallow.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1023 Hens feed on Earwigs:..I have found a great number of them in their Mawes.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 100 Their Maw is the Happer, which holds and softens the Grain, letting it drop by Degrees into the Stomach.
g. The swim bladder of a fish. Cf. fish-maw n. at fish n.1 Compounds 2b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of
sound1323
swimmer1579
wind-bladder1594
rete1615
swim1638
air bladder1675
swimming-bladder1713
air duct1744
red body1785
swim-bladder1837
fish-maw1840
fish-sound1879
maw1883
red gland1896
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 355 Isinglass or fish glue, in its raw state, is the ‘sound’, ‘maw’, or swimming bladder of various kinds of fish.
3.
a. The throat or gullet; the jaws or mouth of a voracious animal or (occasionally) of a gluttonous or insatiably hungry person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth
mawc1450
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > gullet
gulletc1380
mawc1450
gula1661
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4728 (MED) Ieants..stode..glorand on his gome with grisely mawis.
a1456 J. Lydgate Bycorne & Chychevache (Trin. Cambr. R.3.20) 52 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 435 (MED) Þis Bycorne wol him oppresse And devowren in his mawe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 244/1 Mawe of a beest, jovsier.
1795 G. Galloway Poems (ed. 2) 18 Our maw wi' drouth was burning.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. iv. 4 A lamb between the maw Of two fierce wolves.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vii. 112 The philosopher's hand closed on them as the fish's maw closes on the bait.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere ii. 9 A little black ball has gone down the hungry maw of a pike.
1928 E. W. Hendy Lure of Bird Watching xi. 196 The youngsters sat gorming on its edge, while she stuffed gobbets of bread..into their insatiable maws.
1970 Sunday Tel. (Brisbane) 22 Feb. 92/1 The men seemed to open their maws only to shovel food into them.
1987 Trout & Salmon Mar. 34/1 It stuck its head up out of the river,..and it opened its great maw wide and shook itself..and I had the pleasure of seeing my fly catapult out of its mouth.
b. In extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice
mouthOE
orifice?a1425
gull1545
chops1589
orifex1590
mouthpiece1683
maw1818
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 66 Weary, he sat down before the maw Of a wide outlet.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 44 I saw the opening maw of hell.
1931 F. Hurst Back St. xxxi. 277 The small vestibule where stood a row of these iron men of chance. Occasionally one of the guests, feeding coins into these metal maws, staked her.
1955 Times 5 Aug. 9/7 The grim realities of economics are rapidly driving the stubbornly ‘independent’ man into the insatiable maw of large combines.
1980 D. Terman Free Flight (1981) viii. 123 The flow of blood was blacker, a sluggish surge from the open maw of the wound.
1993 Canoe Mar. 40/1 The others were beyond the first set of rapids now and in the maw of another.
†4. figurative. Appetite, inclination, or liking. Frequently in to have a maw (to). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun]
i-willc888
wilningc888
willingeOE
lustc950
listc1220
desire1303
affection1340
desiring1377
appetite1382
envya1400
wishc1430
desideryc1450
stomach1513
affect1531
wilnec1540
desirefulness1548
woulding1549
desirousness1571
ambition1579
lusting1580
listing1587
maw1601
appetition1603
appetence1610
bosoma1616
orexis1619
desirableness1649
appetency1656
would1753
wanting1801
want-to1903
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. i. sig. F3v Oh I do stomacke them hugely: I haue a mawe now, and't were for sir Beuisses horse. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. v. sig. H4v Haue you no mawe to restitution?
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) v. sig. H3 v If you haue any maw, feede here till you choak againe.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 Next the word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon hee plaies the most notorious hobbihors.
1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions ii. 45 I have no great maw to go home again.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband v. ii. 50 I have no great Maw to that Business, methinks.
1765 D. Garrick Let. 10 Mar. (1963) II. 449 Do the Town in general really wish to see me on ye Stage? or are they..as cool about it as their humble Servant?—I have no maw for it at all.

Compounds

maw-bound n. and adj. †(a) n. a digestive disorder of cattle characterized by excessive distension of the rumen with food; rumen impaction (obsolete); (b) adj. constipated (rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > intestinal or urinary disorders
vermination1656
maw-bounda1722
mooring1737
string1776
gut-tie1794
string1798
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 344 The distemper in cows called the maw-bound..comes from a surfeit by being overheated by driving.
1848 Rural Cycl. II. 486 Grain-sick, or Maw-bound, a great and dangerous distension of the rumen of cattle.
1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Maw bound, same as Constipated.
† maw-gut n. Obsolete the stomach of a person or animal.
ΚΠ
1379 MS Gloucester Cathedral 19 No. 1. f. 2 Parta stomachi, Anglice, the mawe gutte.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 31/2 Intestinum primum,..the stomach gutte, or maw gut.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 195 He [sc. the elephant] hath his gall in his maw-gutte, which is so full of sinewes, that one would thinke he had foure bellies.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 657 The maw-gut [of the squirrel] differeth from al other, for it is Coecum, that is, as I take it without a passage out of it into any other part then the other guts [etc.].
† maw mother n. Obsolete rare a molar pregnancy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > false conception or pregnancy
molaa1398
mole?c1425
maw mother?c1475
mooncalf1565
whetstone1580
cushion1600
false conception1601
pseudocyesis1859
pseudopregnancy1860
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 78v Þe mawe modyr [1483 BL Add. 89074 Mawmoder], molacrum.
† maw-skin n. Obsolete the stomach of an unweaned calf, from which rennet is obtained.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] > parts of
race1661
mid-calf1769
maw-skin1784
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 41 The Maw-skin..is the Maw or Stomach of Calves.
1846 in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 205 The water thus impregnated with the maw-skin is passed through the sieve into the milk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mawn.2

Brit. /mɔː/, U.S. /mɔ/, /mɑ/, Scottish English /mɔ/
Forms: Middle English manys (plural, transmission error), Middle English mauys (plural), Middle English–1500s mawe, 1500s mauue, 1500s– maw, 1600s 1800s– maws, 1800s– maas, 1800s– mawse; Scottish pre-1700 maus, pre-1700 mawe, pre-1700 mawes, pre-1700 mawis, pre-1700 1700s– maw, 1800s– maws.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French mawe.
Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman mawe, maw, mawve, mauve, mave, malve, Old French mauve mauve n., rather than independently developed as a variant of mallow n. Compare mallow n., maul n.2The historically plural forms in -s early become predominant in singular use (compare similar Middle English and early modern use s.v. mallow n.). Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Maws from Northumberland and Nottinghamshire as well as Scotland.
Now Scottish and English regional (northern).
Frequently in plural, with singular agreement. Any of various plants of the genus Malva (mallows), esp. the common mallow, Malva sylvestris.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > [noun]
hockc725
malloweOE
crisp mallowa1300
altheaa1398
mawa1400
maula1425
alceac1440
malva1527
vervain mallow1548
cut mallow1565
dwarf mallow1578
curled mallow1620
musk1728
Sida1753
curled-leaved mallow1754
marshmallow1814
round dock1825
mallow wort1845
crisped-leaved mallow1846
Modiola1856
velvet-leaf1856
fairy cheeses1869
pancakes1882
frog cheese1886
musk plant1898
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 23 Malva ortolana vel domestica, g. mauue, ang. mawe.
a1456 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (BL Add.) (1904) 55 Mauys [c1425 Vesp. Take ye of þe manys; Fr. malves].
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 433 Froyt & gyrs thai oysyd tyll ete As kers, or mawe, or wyolete.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 45 The vertues of mallowe or mawes.
1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. C4v Fomentit wt the decoctioun of ye rute of lilie, maw, althe, cammeile.
1696 in J. Maidment Analecta Scotica (1837) II. 13 Aduertes me, gif he hes the seid of al sort of mawes, purpie, and sorrelis.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Maas, Mawse, marsh mallow, Malva moschata, L. The herb is still used medicinally as a poultice to allay swellings, etc.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Maws, the maws mallow or marshmallow.
1922 Kelso Chron. 6 Jan. 4 A cough of some standing was attacked by maws (malva sylvestris) or by linseed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mawn.3

Brit. /mɔː/, U.S. /mɔ/, /mɑ/, Scottish English /mɔ/
Forms: 1600s maw; Scottish pre-1700 mau, pre-1700 1700s mall, pre-1700 1700s– maw, 1700s– mawe, 1800s– maa (esp. Shetland), 1900s– mar, 1900s– myave.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Probably the reflex of a borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic már , stem máv- : see mew n.1).The Old English form māw as a variant of mew n.1 sometimes posited on the basis of the spelling maw pul in a Worcestershire charter is dubious, and this compound has been variously explained.
Now Scottish regional.
A gull, esp. the common gull, Larus canus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
meweOE
larea1425
sea-mawc1425
seamewc1430
mow1440
maw?a1513
sea-cob1530
camose1542
seagull1542
cob1574
mevy1616
sea-pigeon1620
tarrock1674
sea-mall1676
sea-moit1681
gor1697
seed bird1791
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 Thik was the clud of kayis and crawis, Of marleȝonis, mittanis, and of mawis.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 178 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 The se mawis war monkis ye blak & ye quhyte.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The suannis murnit be cause the gray goul mau pronosticat ane storme.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 82 It is heir to be nottit, that no mawis wes sene within the lochis of New or Auld Abirdeins since the begining of thir trubles.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 345 The common Sea-Mall, Larus cinereus minor.
1698 M. Martin Late Voy. St. Kilda ii. 55 The Fulmar, in Bigness equals the Malls of the second Rate.
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 159 The taking of Fowls of divers kinds, as Maws, Herons, &c.
c1825 Jolly Goshawk in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 360/1 The thing of my love's face is white It's that of dove or maw.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 593 Gavia ridibunda...[Syn.] Laughing Gull...Black-cap. Hooded Maw.
1877 J. S. Angus in D. J. Waugh & B. Smith Shetland's Northern Links (1996) 55 Da muckle skerry be-oot da teng Is covered ower..wi..dunters an swabbi maas.
1899 Shetland News 20 May 7/2 A'll waager 'at A'm fune mair maa's eggs is ony ane o' me age in Shetlan'.
1931 Shetland Almanac Compan. 189 Shu gae a aafil screecgh, an' loupit i' da air laek a maa.
1954 New Shetlander No. 40. 7 Bit afore lang da maas medd menn, first ava pleepsit wye, dan wi a klaagin is an dey'd büne raameest an tirn.
1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 20 All the maas were there, from the swaabie downwards, except the black-headed gull.
1994 C. De Luca Voes & Sounds 2 An dan we'd see dem..Plooin da voe wi a frush o froad An maas divin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mawn.4

Brit. /mɔː/, U.S. /mɔ/, /mɑ/, Irish English /mɒː/, Scottish English /mɔ/
Forms: 1500s mall, 1500s–1600s mawe, 1500s– maw.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish mámh.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < Irish mámh trump. Compare Mayo n.1
Now historical.
1. Cards.
a. A trick-taking card game played in Ireland and Scotland, in which the highest trump is the five (formerly known as the five-finger).Twenty-five (the national card game of Ireland) and the earlier spoil-five developed from this game.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] > varieties of
maw1548
centc1555
mount cent1599
Mayo?c1650
cientoc1690
Rubicon1873
klobbiyos1892
Sant1909
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 221 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xci At ale howse too sitt at mack or at mall.
1593 B. Rich Greenes Newes Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Although the knaue of trumpes be the seconde Carde at Mawe, yet the fiue-finger may commaunde both him and all the rest of the pack.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 226 In games at Cards, the Maw requires a quick conceit or present pregnancie.
1864 Reader No. 105. 826/1 Primero yielded the ascendency to Maw.
1873 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Legends 135 Seize noddy, maw and ruff, were all games of cards.
1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games xv. 188 Its [sc. Spoil Five's] venerable ancestor, Maw, was a favourite of James VI of Scotland.
†b. to heave the (also at) maw: to play maw. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Pref. Verse sig. B.ij To checke at Chesse, to heaue at Maw, at Macke to passe the time.
a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1615) sig. B2 Then thirdly follow'd heauing of the Maw, A game without Ciuility or Law.
†c. a set at maw: a game of maw. Obsolete.N.E.D.'s to set a maw was based on a mistranscription of quot. 1633.
ΚΠ
1595 P. Henslowe Diary 2 Jan. (1961) 26 Rd [i.e. received] at the seat at mawe [i.e. the play of that title] xxiiijs.
1595 R. Parry Moderatus sig. Fv Not one asmuch as calling for a payre of cardes to play a set at Mawe.
1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. H4 The dealing of Cannes like a set at Mawe.
1623 T. Gataker Wife in Deed 62 in Good Wife Gods Gift Whom a pint of wine drunke together,..or a set at Maw maketh Friends.
1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. G2v My Lord, you were best to try a set at Maw.
†2. a help at maw: a resource, a resort; a means of evasion. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource
boota1225
chevisancec1330
shift1523
a help at maw1592
resource1665
1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. K4v If thou carie beleefe, which is a helpe at maw, as the Phisition sayth to such as wil be cured.
c1600 Groome-porters Lawes at Mawe (single sheet) 16. Prouided also that if you meane to lead a helpe, you may vie it upon your owne asked carde.]
1644–7 J. Cleveland Char. London Diurnall 7 If any thing fall out amiss, which cannot be smothered, the Diurnall hath a help at Maw.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 13 But it may be our Author has a help at Mawe; for our Author Ground 8. saies It is evident [etc.].
1678 B. R. Let. Popish Friends 4 A Dispensation..is always an Infallible Help at Maw, a sure Antidote against Perjury.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mawn.6

Brit. /mɔː/, U.S. /mɔ/, /mɑ/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ma n.3
Etymology: Variant of ma n.3Chiefly U.S. regional (see discussion s.v. ma n.3), also Canadian, and 20th-cent. Scottish.
regional (chiefly North American and Scottish (central)).
= ma n.3 1. Cf. paw n.3
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]
old wifeeOE
old womanOE
trota1375
carlinec1375
cronec1386
vecke1390
monea1393
hagc1400
ribibec1405
aunt?a1425
crate14..
witchc1475
mauda1500
mackabroine1546
grandam?1550
grannam1565
old lady1575
beldam1580
lucky1629
granny1634
patriarchess1639
runta1652
harridan1699
grimalkin1798
mama1810
tante1815
wifie1823
maw1826
old dear1836
tante1845
Mother Bunch1847
douairière1869
dowager1870
veteraness1880
old trout1897
tab1909
bag1924
crow1925
ma1932
Skinny Liz1940
old bag1947
old boot1958
tannie1958
LOL1960
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun]
mothereOE
dame?c1225
merea1275
childbearera1382
genitricea1500
mammy1523
dama1547
mama1555
genetrix1561
mam1570
mum?1595
old lady1599
authoressc1603
mam1608
genitress1610
old woman1668
old girl1745
mummy1768
momma1810
madre1815
maw1826
ma1829
marm1835
mater1843
mom1846
mommy1846
maternal1867
motherkins1870
muvver1871
mumsy1876
mamacita1887
mutti1905
birth mother1906
duchess1909
amma1913
momsey1914
mums1915
moms1925
mata1945
baby-mother1966
mama1982
old dear1985
baby-mama1986
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife
wifeeOE
womanc1275
peerc1330
spousessc1384
ladyc1390
good lady1502
girl?a1513
spousage1513
little lady1523
the weaker vessel1526
companion1535
wedlock1566
Mrs1572
dame1574
rib?1590
feme1595
fathom1602
feme covert1602
shrew1606
wife of one's bosom1611
kickie-wickiea1616
heifer1616
sposa1624
bosom-partner1633
goodwife1654
little woman1715
squaw1767
the Mrs1821
missus1823
maw1826
lady wife1840
tart1864
mistress1873
mama1916
ball and chain1921
trouble and strife1929
old boot1958
1826 A. N. Royall Sketches Hist., Life, & Manners U.S. 121 Here too you have the ‘paw and maw’..and ‘tote’, with a long train of their kindred.
1857 in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1983) lxx. 41 I got a letter from Maw after school.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. ix. 154 You'll find some calikers that belonged to maw in a box under the bed in our room.
1925 E. O'Neill Desire under Elms iii. ii. 204 'Twas yer Maw's folks aimed t'steal my farm from me.
1962 M. Richler in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 177 She rushed up to Mervyn and kissed him. ‘Maw just told me.’
1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 150 She's been dead for fifteen years. Fifteen years. A long time without your maw, eh?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mawv.

Brit. /maʊ/, U.S. /maʊ/, Scottish English /mʌʊ/
Forms: late Middle English maw; English regional 1800s– mow, 1800s– maaw (Lancashire); Scottish 1800s– maw.
Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch mauwen.
Etymology: < Middle Dutch mauwen (Dutch mauwen , also miauwen ) to mew, of imitative origin (compare mew v.1, meow int.).Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Mow from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and East Anglia; Surv. Eng. Dial. records similar spoken forms from a wide variety of locations, particularly northern England and East Anglia.
Now English regional and Scottish.
intransitive. Of a cat: to mew.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [verb (intransitive)] > miaow
kewtc1440
maw1481
wraw1481
wrawl1596
maule1599
mewl1611
meow1632
miaul1632
yow1820
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 22 Tybert coude not goo awaye, but he mawede and galped so lowde, that [etc.].
1775 Hist. & Comical Trans. Lothian Tom (new ed.) i. 3 She sat mawing, always turning herself about, combing [printed coming] her nose with her foot.
1817 J. Christie Instructions 92 A neighbouring Cat ae night maw'd keen.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 39 Mow, To mew as a cat does. It rimes with ‘sow’.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia at Mow ‘It was mowin the bitterest’, said of a cat.
1899 W. F. McHardy Bonnie Montrose 58 Creepin' like a partan, mawin' like a cat.

Derivatives

ˈmawing n. the action or an instance of mawing.
ΚΠ
1868 B. Brierley Fratchingtons iv Two cats—one ut catches moice an' another ut does o th'maawin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mawint.n.5

Brit. /maʊ/, U.S. /maʊ/, Scottish English /mʌʊ/
Forms: pre-1700 1700s– maw, 1800s mawe.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: maw v.
Etymology: < maw v.
Scottish. rare.
A. int.
Representing the cry of a cat, or a cry similar to that of a cat: ‘miaow’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [interjection] > miaow
meow1634
maw1692
yow1820
1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iv. 115 Make them play..upon their Crowns till they cry Maw again—(he pronounced the word Maw like the noise of a Cat).
B. n.5
The cry of a cat, a miaow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > sounds made by > miaow
meow1634
waw1763
mew1791
maw1820
meow1840
mewl1857
1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. June in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) About hauf a score o' great big grey cats..gaed a loud mawe.
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