pawky

pawky
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Pawky — Paw ky, a. [Cf. AS. p[ae]cean to deceive.] Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] Jamieson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pawky — [pô′kē] adj. pawkier, pawkiest Chiefly Brit. shrewd and witty; humorously crafty pawkily adv. pawkiness n …   English World dictionary

  • pawky — Cleveland Dialect List impudent, semi insolent: as pawky as a pyet …   English dialects glossary

  • pawky — adjective especially ScotE humorous in a quiet clever way that could be intended to be either funny or serious: a pawky sense of humour …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • pawky — adjective Etymology: obsolete English dialect pawk trick Date: 1676 chiefly British artfully shrewd ; canny …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pawky — pawkily, adv. pawkiness, n. /paw kee/, adj., pawkier, pawkiest. Chiefly Brit. cunning; sly. [1670 80; Scots pawk trick + Y1] * * * …   Universalium

  • pawky — adjective /ˈpɔːki/ Shrewd, sly; often also as characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour …   Wiktionary

  • pawky — pɔːkɪ adj. shrewd, cunning, wily; clever, smart, intelligent …   English contemporary dictionary

  • pawky — adjective (pawkier, pawkiest) chiefly Scottish & N. English drily humorous; sardonic. Derivatives pawkily adverb pawkiness noun Origin C17: from Scots and north. Engl. pawk trick …   English new terms dictionary

  • pawky —   a. sly; coy; dry …   Dictionary of difficult words

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