Pawky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pawky
       adj : cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly
             scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch
       [also: {pawkiest}, {pawkier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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