1 the foot of an animal that has CLAWS or nails
2 (informal) a person's hand:
Take your filthy paws off me!
verb ~ (at) sth
1 (of an animal) to scratch or touch sth repeatedly with a paw:
[V] The dog pawed at my sleeve. * [VN] The stallion pawed the ground impatiently.
2 [VN] (sometimes humorous) to touch sb in a rough sexual way that they find offensive
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for paw is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is paw a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, paw is tagged as noun.
Does paw appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — paw appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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