PAW
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paw¹
- /pɔː(ɹ)/ UK
- /pɔ/ US
- /pɑ/
- /poː(ɹ)/ Australia
Sounds like poor (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger), pore, pour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), par (non-rhotic, cot–caught merger, father-bother merger), pa (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː
Where it comes from
From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Further origin unknown, perhaps from Frankish *pōta, from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną, whence also Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”). See more at put. Doublet of pote, put, and putt.
Cognate with Dutch poot, poten (“to plant”), Low German Pote, German Pfote, Icelandic pota (“to stick”).
noun paws
- The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
- A hand. Get your grubby paws off my things!
verb paws · pawing · pawed
- Of an animal, to dig through (something, such as a garbage can) with paws.
- Of an animal, to draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
- To touch (someone) in a sexual way. 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.
- To clumsily dig (through something).
- To flatter.
paw²
- /pɔː(ɹ)/ UK
- /pɔ/ US
- /pɑ/
- /poː(ɹ)/ Australia
Sounds like poor (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger), pore, pour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger), par (non-rhotic, cot–caught merger, father-bother merger), pa (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː
Where it comes from
The word probably has an origin in baby talk. See pa.
noun paws
- Alternative form of pa (“father”).pa
PAW³
noun PAWs
- Abbreviation of plasma arc welding (an arc welding technology).plasma arc welding
- Abbreviation of plasma arc weld (a weld created with the PAW process).plasma arc weld
- initialism of physics analysis workstation.physics analysis workstation PAW is a program package to assist physicists in the analysis and presentation of their data.
