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n. (plural of pawing English)
Usage examples of "pawings".
We always love to touch a cat, but only the insensitive can uniformly welcome the frantic and humid nuzzlings and pawings of a dusty and perhaps not inodorous canine which leaps and fusses and writhes about in awkward feverishness for no particular reason save that blind nerve-centres have been spurred by certain meaningless stimuli.
It would be a crude grave, but if I covered him well enough he'd be safe from the pawings of wolves and flenx.
The comb was one thing he really could have used, but he dropped it back into the bag without further interest A few more halfhearted pawings, and he decided she didn't have any valuables hidden from him.
A few more half-hearted pawings, and he decided she didn't have any valuables hidden from him.
He played his bozouki with such vibrant virtuosity that he seemed to be playing three, and he could induce even the Germans to put their arms about each others' shoulders and dance in a circle with motions of the feet like the impatient pawings of a horse.