Definitions for pawky

pawky pawk·y

Spelling: [paw-kee]
IPA: /ˈpɔ ki/

Pawky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in pawky (akpwy).

Definitions for pawky

adjective

  1. cunning; sly.

Origin of pawky

1670-80; Scots pawk trick + -y1

Examples for pawky

Poetry came to Whittier through the chance visit of a Yankee gypsy, a pawky auld carle of a wandering Scotchman.

They say pawky means sorter cute an' cunnin', like in Scotch.

I wouldna swear tae the pawky carl, but I'd ken the een o' him full weel.

What a lot of quiet fun and pawky jokes there would be passing round.

He was loud in praise of that book, the ironical insolence and pawky humour of which he had greatly enjoyed.

The routhie bield that gars the gearIs gone where glint the pawky een.

Then came to the West End a masterful man, a Scotchman, pawky and hard.

It has a number of sweet Scottish verses, plaintive or pawky.

But obsolete never shall be the Shepherd's plaintive or pawky, his melancholy or merry, lays.

The pawky barn boss, who possessed perfectly the art of tantalizing innuendo, thus stirred the bar-room pool to the depths.

Word Value for pawky
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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