Meaning of PAWKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâkee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (British) cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch |
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| | Synonyms: | | artful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Paw"ky\, a. [Cf. AS. p[ae]cean to deceive.]
Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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| | Related Terms: | | acute, arch, artful, astute, Byzantine, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deliberate, designing, devious, difficult, diplomatic, discreet, feline, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, foxy, fuss-budgety, fussy, gingerly, guarded, guileful, hard to please, heedful, hesitant, ingenious, insidious, inventive, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, mindful, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pernickety, persnickety, politic, prudent, queasy, ready, regardful, resourceful, safe, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, squeamish, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, tentative, thorough, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, vulpine, wary, wily |
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