Paw

Quick meaning: Paw is a noun meaning The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.

Meaning

The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.

More Meanings

1. (humorous, also furry fandom) A hand.
2. (transitive) Of an animal, to touch (something) with a paw.
3. (transitive, by extension) To touch (someone) in a sexual way.
4. (transitive, by extension) To clumsily dig (through something).
5. (transitive, dated) To flatter.
6. (nonstandard or rustic) Alternative form of pa (“father”).

Example Sentences

Get your grubby paws off my things!

Abel smiled broadly and proffered his hamlike paw to the chief […]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• paws
• pawing
• pawed

Synonyms for paw

Depending on context, synonyms include hand, foot, fiddle, fondle, grope, palpate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hand, manus, hook, foot, leg, limb.

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