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paws at

paws at is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 paws at

What is paws at the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Paws at is the third-person singular simple present indicative of paw at.

Words near paws at in the dictionary

  1. pawprint
  2. pawprints
  3. pawrent
  4. pawrents
  5. paws
  6. paws at
  7. paws off
  8. paws up
  9. Pawsey
  10. pawsful
  11. pawshake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paws 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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