different between maw vs muzzle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /m?/
• Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). 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 ?????? (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:

     So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.

2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion

     To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
3. (slang, derogatory) The mouth.

   Synonyms: trap, yap

   Shut your maw!

4. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
5. Appetite; inclination.

   • Unless you had more maw to do me good.

Translations

Etymology 2

By shortening of mother

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.

Etymology 3

See mew (“a gull”),måke (“a gull”)

Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. A gull.

Anagrams

• WMA, awm, mwa

Abinomn

Noun

maw

1. butterfly

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ?/

Noun

maw m

1. boy

   Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.

   I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.

Synonyms

• mab

Mapudungun

Noun

maw (using Unified Alphabet)

1. rain

Middle English

Noun

maw

1. Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*mi?- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *ma?-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax ma?a, also Dahalo ma?a; Hebrew ???? (máyim),
Classical Syriac ???? (mayy?) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.

Noun

maw m (plural mawooyin m)

1. water container, water-jar

Reference

• Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “ma'wi”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 613

English

Etymology

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin m?sus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin m?g?re (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Noun

muzzle (plural muzzles)

1. The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

   Synonym: snout
2. (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
4. A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
6. (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

   Coordinate term: breech

7. (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

   Synonym: bridle

8. (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

muzzle (third-person singular simple present muzzles, present participle muzzling, simple past and past participle muzzled)

1. (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

   • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

   • Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

5. (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

Derived terms

• muzzler

Translations

References

• muzzle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “muzzle”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000