Pawky

Definition: Pawky

Pawky

Adjective

1. (British) cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch.

Date "pawky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Note: Pawky \Paw"ky\, adjective. [Compare to Anglo-Saxon p[ae]cean to deceive.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cunning	Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Music	Pawky [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Pawky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pawky" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "pawky": dry ironic ironical pawky wry. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "pawky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ironik (derisive, ironic, quizzical), dinak (argute, artful, canny, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, leery, sleeky, sly, wily). (various references)

Arabic		‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), ‏داهية (adroit, artful, astute, quizzical, resourceful, shifty, shrewd, sly). (various references)

Bulgarian		хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), лукав (astute, crafty, designing, feline, furtive, guileful, parlous, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily), ироничен (bland, derisive, derisory, dry, ironic, sly), дяволит (impish, mischievous, perky, puckish, scampish). (various references)

Farsi		مکار (Cunning), محیل (Astute, Sly, Subtle), چالاک (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Natty, Nimble, Nippy, Peppy, Prompt, Sprightly, Spry), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide, Spry), اب زیرکاه (Mean, Sneaky). (various references)

French		narquois. (various references)

Greek		πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, parlous, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Hebrew		שובב (boisterous, enfant terrible, imp, mischievous, naughty, rascal), ערמומי (arch, artful, calculating, canny, catchy, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, insidious, shifty, slicker, sly, underhand, wily). (various references)

Hungarian		ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily), fortélyos (artful, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, dodgy, fly, foxy, guileful, vulpine, wily), agyafúrt (artful, coony, cute, dodgy, foxy, leery, out and out, sharp, shrewd, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily). (various references)

Pig Latin		awkypay

Portuguese		malicioso (arch, bland, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parmesan, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious, wanton), finório (dodo, fly, pricker), escarvar, astucioso (crafty, jesuitic, jesuitical, tricky, wily), arteiro (drag, draw, mischievous, playful). (various references)

Romanian		viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), mucalit (jester, jestful, jesting, joker, pawkily, wag, waggish), şiret (arch, artful, canny, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, sharp, shifty, sly, slyboots, slyly, string, subtle, tricky, wily). (various references)

Russian		лукавый (conniving, wily). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šeretski (shifty). (various references)

Spanish		ladino (cagey, crafty, cunning, ladino, linguistic, smart, spanish-speaking indian), astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Swedish		knipslug (clever, cunning, sly, smart), klipsk (clever, cunning, cute, shrewd, sly, smart). (various references)

Turkish		şakayla karışık laf çaktıran, şaka yollu iğneleyen. (various references)

Ukranian		іронічний (ironic, ironical), хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "pawky" (pronounced 'Paw"ky'): Busky, Choky, Drosky, flunky, Moky, Pesky. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-k-p-w-y"
	-1 letter: yawp.
	-2 letters: kay, paw, pay, pya, wap, way, yak, yap, yaw.
	-3 letters: aw, ay, ka, pa, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-k-p-w-y"
	+2 letters: parkway, pawkily.
	+3 letters: parkways.
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