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Pawky

adjective
1.
Cunning and sly.






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"Pawky" Quotes from Famous Books



... fashion of integrity that ye will find amang them," replied David Deans, "and a fashion of wisdom, and fashion of carnal learning—gazing, glancing-glasses they are, fit only to fling the glaiks in folk's een, wi' their pawky policy, and earthly ingine, their flights and refinements, and periods of eloquence, frae heathen emperors and popish canons. They canna, in that daft trash ye were reading to me, sae muckle as ca' men that ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... Swuft the pawky booties came, Ha, ha, the flittin' o't: Tummas scraught, an' lit for hame, Ha, ha, the spittin' o't; Lauchit Tabbs to see him fa'; Leapit frae ta gairden wa'; Quoth the Gudeman: 'Dairm it a'! What ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)



Words linked to "Pawky" :   U.K., artful, UK, Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland



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