Synonyms for pawing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : paw

Phonetic Transcription : pɔ

Top 10 synonyms for pawing

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Définition of pawing

Origin : c.1300, from Old French powe, poe "paw, fist," of uncertain origin. Evidence points to a Gallo-Romance root form *pauta which probably is related to the source of patten.

verb touch roughly

Example sentences :

Mr. Hungerford, pawing in the darkness at the offending footstool, swore.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Somebody's been pawing this all over, and the prints are probably spoilt.
Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest

He's been pawing the air ever since Crew cabled, and this has blown him up completely.
Extract from : « The Coast of Chance » by Esther Chamberlain

If so, it came quickly unstuck, and the bull emerged, pawing and snorting.
Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper

For a time the best sheep-dog in the North was pawing at the Gate of Death.
Extract from : « Bob, Son of Battle » by Alfred Ollivant

The war-horse, saddled and bridled, is pawing the earth and neighing.
Extract from : « The American Empire » by Scott Nearing

Where'd any of us be, if the Representative from this county got to pawing the air for reform?
Extract from : « In Our Town » by William Allen White

The horse of a mounted field officer was pawing the garden turf.
Extract from : « Clarence » by Bret Harte

And Davies and I were pawing one another in the dark of the cabin.
Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers

The horses were tossing their heads, pawing the ground, and acting restive.
Extract from : « Polly and Eleanor » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Antonyms for pawing

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