paw
see also: PAW
Pronunciation Noun
PAW
Noun
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see also: PAW
Pronunciation Noun
paw (plural paws)
- The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
- Synonyms: hand, foot
- Hypernyms: limb extremity
- meronyms en
- holonyms en
- (humorous) A hand.
- Get your grubby paws off my things!
paw (paws, present participle pawing; past and past participle pawed)
- (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.
- Hypernyms: handle
- (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
- Hypernyms: touch
- (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
- Bible, Job xxxix. 21
- He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
- Bible, Job xxxix. 21
- (by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way.
- 1997 August 17, Robert Spector, in misc.fitness.weights:
- IronMan used to be good in this way, back in the '80s. […] They wouldn't subscribe to the old, "Let's put a male bodybuilder with silicone babes pawing him" cover that's mainstay now.
- 1997 October 26, Verbotene, quoted by Amy McWilliams, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc:
- So, Katherine was out with Luke and they were both quite dolled up and swoon-worthy. Katherine fawned all over Luke and pawed him, but to what end? Was Stefan supposed to believe that Luke and Katherine have some sort of a thing going? What was the point of this display from Katherine's perspective?
- 2002 July 18, Lurker Dave, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe:
- Subtlety is great, but what exactly happened with Jessica and the cop during sex that he locked her up afterwards? Also, what was the item she nicked from his shirt while she pawed him?
- 1997 August 17, Robert Spector, in misc.fitness.weights:
- (by extension) To clumsily dig through something.
- (transitive, dated) To flatter.
- French: tripoter, peloter
- German: betatschen
- Portuguese: apalpar
- Russian: тро́гать
- German: befummeln
- Russian: ша́рить
paw (plural paws)
- (nonstandard or rural) Father; pa.
- Synonyms: pawpaw, pa, papa, father, dad, daddy, pappy
- Hypernyms: parent
- hypo en
- Coordinate terms: maw#English|maw, brother#English|brother, sis#English|sis, sissy#English|sissy
PAW
Noun
paw
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of plasma arc welding. an arc welding technology
- Synonyms: PAW welding
- (countable) Abbreviation of plasma arc weld. a weld created with the PAW process
- Synonyms: PAW weld
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