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pawshake

pawshake noun: the grasping of an animal's paw, analogous to a handshake.

Noun

pawshake (plural pawshakes)

  1. The grasping of an animal's paw, analogous to a handshake.
    • Now my pet has grown into a big dog. I still shake its paw. When my friends come to visit me, my dog happily offers a pawshake to everyone.2015, G. E. Giam, Model Compositions Series (Primary 1) (page 161)
  2. (slang) A handshake, especially with a handpaw.

Verb

pawshake (third-person singular simple present pawshakes, present participle pawshaking, simple past and past participle pawshaked)

  1. (intransitive) To perform a pawshake.

Forms of pawshake

Noun
pluralpawshakes
Verb
third-person singular presentpawshakes
present participlepawshaking
past participlepawshaked
pastpawshaked

Origin of pawshake

From paw + shake.

Questions about pawshake

What does pawshake mean?
Pawshake means the grasping of an animal's paw, analogous to a handshake.
What part of speech is pawshake?
Pawshake can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pawshake?
The plural of pawshake is pawshakes.

Words near pawshake in the dictionary

  1. paws at
  2. paws off
  3. paws up
  4. Pawsey
  5. pawsful
  6. pawshake
  7. pawshaked
  8. pawshakes
  9. pawshaking
  10. pawshakings
  11. pawsies

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