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pawed at

pawed at is the simple past and past participle of paw at.

Meaning of paw at

Verb

paw at (third-person singular simple present paws at, present participle pawing at, simple past and past participle pawed at)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To come on to (someone) in a rude way, with excessive and unwelcome touching; to handle (someone or something) rudely or clumsily.
  2. (idiomatic, informal) To repeatedly hit (someone or something) with a paw.

Questions about pawed at

What is pawed at the simple past and past participle of?
Pawed at is the simple past and past participle of paw at.

Words near pawed at in the dictionary

  1. pawbs
  2. Pawcatuck
  3. pawdicure
  4. pawdicures
  5. pawed
  6. pawed at
  7. pawed off
  8. pawed up
  9. pawedness
  10. Pawelek
  11. Paweleks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawed at (page history and authors); paw at (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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