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pawing at

pawing at is the present participle and gerund 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 pawing at

What is pawing at the present participle and gerund of?
Pawing at is the present participle and gerund of paw at.

Words near pawing at in the dictionary

  1. Pawhuskans
  2. Pawican
  3. pawie
  4. pawies
  5. pawing
  6. pawing at
  7. pawing off
  8. pawing up
  9. pawings
  10. pawjob
  11. pawjobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawing 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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