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pawing up

pawing up is the present participle of paw up.

Meaning of paw up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To dig up with, or as if with, paws.
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Questions about pawing up

What is pawing up the present participle of?
Pawing up is the present participle of paw up.

Words near pawing up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawing up (page history and authors); paw up (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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