pawk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Etymology 1

See Puck

Alternative forms

• pauk

Noun

pawk (plural pawks)

1. (Scotland) A wile
   • 1749, An Elegy on the Late Mass John T-, Minister of the Gospel at M--, page 16:

     So blyth was he , and fou ' of pawks; -- But yet he's dead!

   • 1768, William Wilkie, Fables, page 118:

     and a laird May find a beggar sae prepar'd, Wi pawks and wiles, whar pith is wantin, As soon will mak him rue his tauntin.

   • 1811, Hector Macneill, Bygane Times, and Late Come Changes:

     I guess, that yours has no the art To win about a husband's heart, Nor kens the gate wi' saftening sound, And pawks, to bring ilk project round.

Derived terms

• pawkery
• pawky

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

pawk (plural pawks)

1. A small lobster.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pawk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese အပေါက် (a.pauk).

Noun

pawk

1. hole

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ, from *pa- + *ǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkos (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pawk/

Noun

pawk m animal

1. spider

Declension

Declension of pawk

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	pawk	pawka	pawki
Genitive	pawka	pawkowu	pawkow
Dative	pawkoju	pawkoma	pawkam
Accusative	pawka	pawkowu	pawki, pawkow
Instrumental	pawkom	pawkoma	pawkami
Locative	pawku	pawkoma	pawkach

Further reading

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

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ, from *pa- + *ǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkos (“hook”).

Noun

pawk m animal

1. spider

Further reading

• “pawk” in Soblex