pawky

3 definitions found

pawky - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pawky \Paw"ky\, a. [Cf. AS. p[ae]cean to deceive.]
     Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
     [1913 Webster]

pawky - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pawky
      adj 1: cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly
             scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch

pawky - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "pawky":
     Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
     astute, 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, 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