{"id":11055,"date":"2014-02-12T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T18:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:12:22","slug":"wonderful-word-wednesday-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIt’s Wonderful Word Wednesday again! Here’s this week’s word! <\/span><\/div>\n

\nmaw<\/span>
\nnoun
\n1.) the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.
\n2.) the crop or craw of a fowl.
\n3.) the stomach, especially that of an animal.
\n4.) a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal.
\n5.) the symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of an kind: the ravenous maw of Death.<\/p>\n

Example Sentence: The rust-colored werewolf opened its maw lined with half natural and half metal teeth.<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHave you seen this word before? What do you think of it?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\nIf you liked this post, come back every Saturday for more writing advice, character interviews, book reviews and more! On Sundays I have Soundtrack Sundays where I post a new score piece, Tuesdays are Tea Tuesdays with tea reviews, Wednesdays I have Wonderful Word Wednesdays where I post a new vocabulary word, and Fridays are Fan Fridays where I post tags and other goodies. To help support my dream to be an author follow this blog, like me on Facebook,<\/a> watch me on <\/span>deviantART<\/a>,<\/span> and follow me on Pinterest<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>. If you want to know more about my books check out them out here<\/a>. Thank you! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Wonderful Word Wednesday again! Here’s this week’s word!  maw noun 1.) the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal. 2.) the crop or craw of a fowl. 3.) the stomach, especially that of an animal. 4.) a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal. 5.) the symbolic …<\/p>\n

Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wonderful-word-wednesdays"],"yoast_head":"\nWonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It’s Wonderful Word Wednesday again! Here’s this week’s word!  maw noun 1.) the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal. 2.) the crop or craw of a fowl. 3.) the stomach, especially that of an animal. 4.) a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal. 5.) the symbolic … Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw Read More »\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Wanderer's Pen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Victoria Grace Howell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Victoria Grace Howell\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Victoria Grace Howell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/7a44162284e065d06efefff684584955\"},\"headline\":\"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\"},\"wordCount\":220,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Wonderful Word Wednesdays\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\",\"name\":\"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":853},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/\",\"name\":\"Wanderer's Pen\",\"description\":\""Wandering through worlds, real and fictional"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Wanderer's Pen\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Inukshuk.icon_.tn_-e1567372691732.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Inukshuk.icon_.tn_-e1567372691732.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150,\"caption\":\"Wanderer's Pen\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/7a44162284e065d06efefff684584955\",\"name\":\"Victoria Grace Howell\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Victoria Grace Howell\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/author\/01849013182543674707\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen","og_description":"It’s Wonderful Word Wednesday again! Here’s this week’s word!  maw noun 1.) the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal. 2.) the crop or craw of a fowl. 3.) the stomach, especially that of an animal. 4.) a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal. 5.) the symbolic … Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw Read More »","og_url":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/","og_site_name":"Wanderer's Pen","article_published_time":"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":853,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Victoria Grace Howell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Victoria Grace Howell","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/"},"author":{"name":"Victoria Grace Howell","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/7a44162284e065d06efefff684584955"},"headline":"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw","datePublished":"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/"},"wordCount":220,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","keywords":["Wonderful Word Wednesdays"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/","url":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/","name":"Wonderful Word Wednesday: Maw - Wanderer's Pen","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","datePublished":"2014-02-13T00:22:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-12T22:12:22+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wonderful-word-wednesday-11\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","width":1280,"height":853},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#website","url":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/","name":"Wanderer's Pen","description":""Wandering through worlds, real and fictional"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#organization","name":"Wanderer's Pen","url":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Inukshuk.icon_.tn_-e1567372691732.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Inukshuk.icon_.tn_-e1567372691732.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","width":150,"height":150,"caption":"Wanderer's Pen"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/7a44162284e065d06efefff684584955","name":"Victoria Grace Howell","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","caption":"Victoria Grace Howell"},"url":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/author\/01849013182543674707\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WonderfulWordWednesdaysNew-1.png?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}