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See also: Paw and PAW

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paw

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pawnee.

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English

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Etymology 1

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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A dog's paw (sense 1)

    From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta, from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną, whence also Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”). See more at put. Doublet of pote, put, and putt.

    Cognate with Dutch poot, poten (“to plant”), Low German Pote, German Pfote, Icelandic pota (“to stick”).

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    paw (plural paws)

    2. 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
      Hypernym: extremity
      Holonym: limb
      Meronyms: claw, finger
      Coordinate terms: hoof, talon
    4. (humorous, also furry fandom) A hand.
      Get your grubby paws off my things!
      • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35:
        Mrs. Hauksbee laid her hand lightly upon the ungloved paw that rested on the turned-backed ’rickshaw hood, and, looking the man full in the face, said tenderly, almost too tenderly, “I believe in you if you mistrust yourself.”
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    Verb

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    paw (third-person singular simple present paws, present participle pawing, simple past and past participle pawed)

    1. (transitive) Of an animal, to touch (something) with a paw.
      1. (transitive) Of an animal, to dig through (something, such as a garbage can) with paws.
      2. (transitive) Of an animal, to draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
    2. (transitive, by extension) To touch (someone) in a sexual way.
      Synonyms: feel up, fiddle, fondle, grope, palpate, touch up
      • 1997 August 17, Robert Spector, misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):
        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, Amy McWilliams, quoting Verbotene, rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet):
        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, rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Usenet):
        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?
      • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:
        Tonight there are no drug deals, no fights, only the random foolishness of the young and inebriated. They stagger with linked arms down the middle of the street. They paw at each other.
      • 2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Illeana Douglas, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
        He was good-looking, masculine, funny, charismatic and he could dance the cha-cha-cha. And he’s never a brute. He’s flirting with women but he’s not pawing them.
    3. (transitive, by extension) To clumsily dig (through something).
      Synonyms: fumble, go through, rummage
    4. (transitive, dated) To flatter.
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    Etymology 2

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    The word probably has an origin in baby talk. See pa.

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    paw (plural paws)

    1. (nonstandard or rustic) Alternative form of pa (“father”).
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father
      Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:father
      Hyponyms: step-paw; see also Thesaurus:father
      Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:mother
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    Cornish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, from Frankish *pōta, from Proto-Germanic *putōną. Compare Welsh pawen.

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    paw m (plural pawyow)

    1. paw
    2. claw
      Synonyms: ewin, kraban

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    Mutation

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    Mutation of paw
    radical soft aspirate hard mixed
    paw baw faw unchanged unchanged

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Jingpho

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    Borrowed from Burmese ဖော့ (hpau.).

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    paw

    1. cork

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    • Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[3], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

    Kashubian

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    Alternative forms

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    Borrowed from Polish paw. Doublet of fau, a form borrowed from German.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpaf/
    • Rhymes: -af
    • Syllabification: paw

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    paw m animal (diminutive pawiã or pawiątkò)

    1. peacock (pheasant of one of the genera Pavo and Afropavo)
      Synonym: fau

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    • Jan Trepczyk (1994), “paw”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
    • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “paw”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[4]
    • “paw”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

    Lower Sorbian

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    Ultimately from Latin pavō. Cognates within Slavic include Upper Sorbian paw, Polish paw, Czech páv, Slovene pav, and Russian павли́н (pavlín).

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    paw m anim (female equivalent pawa)

    1. peacock (pheasant of one of the genera Pavo and Afropavo)

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    Declension of paw
    Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative paw pawa pawy
    Genitive pawa pawowu pawow
    Dative pawoju pawoma pawam
    Accusative pawa pawowu pawy, pawow
    Instrumental pawom pawoma pawami
    Locative pawje pawoma pawach

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    • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “paw”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
    • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “paw”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

    Polish

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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Borrowed from Middle High German phāwe, from Latin pāvō.

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    paw m animal (female equivalent pawica)

    1. (male) peacock
    2. (colloquial) puke; vomit

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    Declension of paw
    singular plural
    nominative paw pawie
    genitive pawia pawi
    dative pawiowi pawiom
    accusative pawia pawie
    instrumental pawiem pawiami
    locative pawiu pawiach
    vocative pawiu pawie

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    Further reading

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    • paw in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • paw in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    Tagalog

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    Etymology

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    From alteration of English foul, from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian. Doublet of pawl.

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    paw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔) (card games, colloquial)

    1. misset or an illegal set structure in pusoy, a Philippine variant of Chinese poker, where the three hands are not in the required nondecreasing rank order

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