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How to pronounce paw in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hand, manus, mitt
Type of extremity
Has types meat hooks, clenched fist, fist, hooks, left, left hand, maulers, right, right hand
Type Words
Type of animal foot, foot
Has types forepaw
Type Words
Type of grate, scrape


The bear pawed the door.
Type Words
Type of fondle, caress
Derivation pawer


The man tried to paw her.

Examples of paw

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A few dogs excitedly paw at plastic doors opening to small, shaded outdoor runs.
From the stltoday.com
She decides to paw at a mud puddle, and he is fascinated with what she is doing.
From the therail.blogs.nytimes.com
If one of his dogs cut a paw, he would stitch it up himself, Ms. Rafferty said.
From the post-gazette.com
Paw through the stacks at Amoeba Music or do the bird at 45 Club at the Knockout.
From the sfgate.com
He scrapes with his paw several times and then, dissatisfied, he pounces on it.
From the sfgate.com
Art items available include paw-print art by members of the Latrobe Art Center.
From the post-gazette.com
The last sign of a tiger was in 2007, when a paw print was spotted in the park.
From the stltoday.com
For quite a while, she would pull him back from the edge with her mouth or a paw.
From the toledoblade.com
On the upside once you get a paw paw successfully planted it's low maintenance.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
  • Scrape with the paws; "The bear pawed the door"
  • Hand: the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt"
  • Touch clumsily; "The man tried to paw her"
  • A paw is the soft foot of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails. A hard foot is called a hoof. Paws are used to pad feet for walking and increase friction.
  • Paw is a hard rock band from Lawrence, Kansas that formed in 1990. The band, in its original line-up, consisted of Mark Hennessy (words & vocals), Grant Fitch (guitars), Charles Bryan (bass), and Peter Fitch (drums). ...
  • Paw is a 1959 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
  • (Paws.) Paws. is the only studio album by British indie band Pull Tiger Tail. The album was completed in February 2007 but management difficulties and trouble with the band's record label at the time, B-Unique, meant that it remained legally in the hands of the label even after the band were no ...
  • (Paws (EP)) Paws is an EP released by Four Tet on 7 December 2001. It consists of remixes of works on his album Pause; the EP's name is a pun on the album's.