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mawed

mawed adjective: having a maw (of a specified kind).

Adjective

mawed (not comparable)

  1. Having a maw (of a specified kind).
    • […] Which, piling private ill on public wrong, / Beneath the garb of patriotism hides / Its large-mawed cravings […]1851, Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord, Caius Gracchus

Origin of mawed

From maw + -ed.

Questions about mawed

What does mawed mean?
Mawed means having a maw (of a specified kind).
What part of speech is mawed?
Mawed is an adjective.

Words near mawed in the dictionary

  1. Mawchi
  2. Mawddach
  3. Mawddwy
  4. Mawdesley
  5. Mawdesleys
  6. mawed
  7. Mawei
  8. Mawenzi
  9. Mawer
  10. Mawers
  11. Mawes

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