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/pɔː/ · noun
The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot..
Get your grubby paws off my things!
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.”
Abel smiled broadly and proffered his hamlike paw to the chief […]
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Use paw when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Paw means The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot..
Common synonyms include hand, foot, feel up, fiddle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Get your grubby paws off my things!
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