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pawkier

pawkier is the comparative form of pawky.

Meaning of pawky

Adjective

pawky (comparative pawkier, superlative pawkiest)

  1. (Northern, Scotland, UK) Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour.
    • [H]e generally meets her at one Signora Sporza's, a very pawky gentlewoman, who understands what's what as well as any woman in Naples […].1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 161

Questions about pawkier

What is pawkier the comparative form of?
Pawkier is the comparative form of pawky.

Words near pawkier in the dictionary

  1. pawings
  2. pawjob
  3. pawjobs
  4. pawk
  5. pawkery
  6. pawkier
  7. pawkiest
  8. pawkily
  9. pawkiness
  10. pawkinesses
  11. pawks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawkier (page history and authors); pawky (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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