Maw vs. Paw — What's the Difference?

The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.

A paw is the soft foot-like part of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws.

The opening into something felt to be insatiable

The foot of an animal, especially a quadruped, that has claws or nails.

(archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.

(Informal) A human hand, especially a large clumsy one

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

To feel or strike with the paw or paws.

The mouth.

To strike or scrape with a beating motion

Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.

To touch or handle clumsily or roughly.

Appetite; inclination.

To feel or touch (another) in an annoying or unwanted way.

Mother.

To scrape the ground with the forefeet

A gull.

To handle someone or something clumsily, rudely, or with too much familiarity

A gull.

The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.

A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; - now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.

(humorous) A hand.

Appetite; inclination.

Father; pa.

An old game at cards.

(of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.

Informal terms for the mouth

(of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.

(of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

(by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way.

(by extension) To clumsily dig through something.

To flatter.

The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

The hand.

To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

To scrape or beat with the forefoot.

A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped

The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb;

Scrape with the paws;

Touch clumsily;