"paw" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɔː/ [UK], /pɔ/ [US], /pɑ/ [cot-caught-merger], /poː/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-uk-paw.ogg [UK], en-us-paw.ogg [US] Forms: paws [plural]
enPR: pô, pä Rhymes: -ɔː Etymology: From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten 'to plant'), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”), Albanian putër 'paw'). More at put. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pawe}} Middle English pawe, {{der|en|fro|poue}} Old French poue, {{m|fro|poe}} poe, {{der|en|frk|*pōta}} Frankish *pōta, {{cog|nl|poot}} Dutch poot, {{cog|nds|Pote}} Low German Pote, {{cog|de|Pfote}} German Pfote, {{der|en|frk|*pōtōn|t=to put, stick, plant}} Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*putōną}} Proto-Germanic *putōną, {{cog|ang|potian|t=to push}} Old English potian (“to push”), {{m|ang|pȳtan|t=to put out, poke out}} pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), {{cog|is|pota|t=to stick}} Icelandic pota (“to stick”), {{cog|sq|putër}} Albanian putër Head templates: {{en-noun}} paw (plural paws)
  1. The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. Synonyms: hand, foot Translations (soft foot of an animal): poot (Afrikaans), putër [feminine] (Albanian), قَدَم (qadam) [feminine] (Arabic), թաթ (tʻatʻ) (Armenian), квачӏ (kʷačʼ) (Avar), pəncə (Azerbaijani), ла́па (lápa) [feminine] (Belarusian), থাবা (thaba) (Bengali), ла́па (lápa) [feminine] (Bulgarian), pota [feminine] (Catalan), kujtu (Chamicuro), (Chinese Mandarin), (jiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), (zhuǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 爪子 (zhuǎzi) (Chinese Mandarin), (fán) (Chinese Mandarin), ягыԓгын (jagyḷgyn) (Chukchi), packa [feminine] (Czech), tlapa [feminine] (Czech), tlapka [feminine] (Czech), pote [common-gender] (Danish), poot [masculine] (Dutch), piedo (Esperanto), käpp (Estonian), tassu (Finnish), käpälä (Finnish), patte [feminine] (French), pouta [feminine] (Galician), gadoupa [feminine] (Galician), თათი (tati) (Georgian), Pfote [feminine] (German), πόδι (pódi) [neuter] (Greek), כַּף (kaf) [feminine] (Hebrew), पंजा (pañjā) [masculine] (Hindi), mancs (Hungarian), loppa [feminine] (Icelandic), cakar (Indonesian), käpälä (Ingrian), crág [feminine] (Irish), zampa [feminine] (Italian), (ashi) (alt: あし) (Japanese), 足の裏 (ashi no ura) (alt: あしのうら) (Japanese), табан (taban) (Kazakh), ជើង (cəəng) (Khmer), (bal) (Korean), таман (taman) (Kyrgyz), ຕີນ (tīn) (Lao), pēs [masculine] (Latin), patta [feminine] (Latin), ķepa [feminine] (Latvian), letena [feminine] (Lithuanian), ше́па (šépa) [feminine] (Macedonian), kaki (Malay), cakar (Malay), pawe (Middle English), тавхай (tavxaj) (Mongolian), bikeeʼ (Navajo), glomek [masculine] (Norn), pote (Norwegian Bokmål), pata [feminine] (Occitan), پنچه (pençe) (Ottoman Turkish), پنجه (panje) (Persian), پنجول (panjul) (Persian), Poot [feminine] (Plautdietsch), łapa [feminine] (Polish), pata [feminine] (Portuguese), labă [feminine] (Romanian), ла́па (lápa) [feminine] (Russian), spòg [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), шапа [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), šapa [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), packa [feminine] (Slovak), laba [feminine] (Slovak), tačko [neuter] (Slovene), табаш (tabaš) (Southern Altai), pata [feminine] (Spanish), zarpa [feminine] (Spanish), garra [feminine] (Spanish), tass [common-gender] (Swedish), панҷа (panja) (Tajik), аяк (ayak) (Tatar), పంజా (pañjā) (Telugu), ตีน (dtiin) (Thai), pati (Turkish), ayak (Turkish), pençe (Turkish), penje (Turkmen), ла́па (lápa) [feminine] (Ukrainian), پنجا (panjā) [masculine] (Urdu), پەنجە (penje) (Uyghur), panja (Uzbek), oyoq (Uzbek), sata [feminine] (Venetian), ẑata [feminine] (Venetian), chân (Vietnamese), cẳng (Vietnamese), lufut (Volapük), nimafut (Volapük), fut (Volapük), pate [feminine] (Walloon), לאַפּע (lape) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-paw-en-noun-g67dWbQk Disambiguation of 'soft foot of an animal': 100 0
  2. (humorous) A hand. Tags: humorous
    Sense id: en-paw-en-noun-c2qJjgTi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: hoof, talon

Noun

IPA: /pɔː/ Audio: en-us-paw.ogg [US], en-uk-paw.ogg [UK] Forms: paws [plural]
enPR: pô Rhymes: -ɔː Etymology: The word probably has an origin in baby talk: see ‘pa’. Head templates: {{en-noun}} paw (plural paws)
  1. (nonstandard or rustic) Father; pa. Categories (topical): Male family members Synonyms: pawpaw, pa, papa, father, dad, daddy, pappy Derived forms: pawpaw Related terms: pa
    Sense id: en-paw-en-noun-YNcBuw~4 Disambiguation of Male family members: 2 1 71 8 1 0 2 6 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 32 32 6 2 2 20 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 1 37 23 10 3 2 18 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /pɔː/ [UK], /pɔ/ [US], /pɑ/ [cot-caught-merger], /poː/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-uk-paw.ogg [UK], en-us-paw.ogg [US] Forms: paws [present, singular, third-person], pawing [participle, present], pawed [participle, past], pawed [past]
enPR: pô, pä Rhymes: -ɔː Etymology: From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten 'to plant'), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”), Albanian putër 'paw'). More at put. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pawe}} Middle English pawe, {{der|en|fro|poue}} Old French poue, {{m|fro|poe}} poe, {{der|en|frk|*pōta}} Frankish *pōta, {{cog|nl|poot}} Dutch poot, {{cog|nds|Pote}} Low German Pote, {{cog|de|Pfote}} German Pfote, {{der|en|frk|*pōtōn|t=to put, stick, plant}} Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*putōną}} Proto-Germanic *putōną, {{cog|ang|potian|t=to push}} Old English potian (“to push”), {{m|ang|pȳtan|t=to put out, poke out}} pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), {{cog|is|pota|t=to stick}} Icelandic pota (“to stick”), {{cog|sq|putër}} Albanian putër Head templates: {{en-verb}} paw (third-person singular simple present paws, present participle pawing, simple past and past participle pawed)
  1. (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. Translations (to go through something): tonkia (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-C9QQ6a1P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 32 32 6 2 2 20 4 Disambiguation of 'to go through something': 89 3 1 1 4 3
  2. (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. Translations (to gently push on something): käpälöidä (Finnish), 足で押す (ashi de osu) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-iWqgsMnI Disambiguation of 'to gently push on something': 6 84 2 2 3 3
  3. (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-sBVh0u0M
  4. (by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way. Tags: broadly Synonyms: grope Translations (to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way): osahávat [imperfective] (Czech), ohmatávat [imperfective] (Czech), gramse (Danish), betasten (Dutch), käpälöidä (Finnish), lääppiä (Finnish), tripoter (French), peloter (French), betatschen (German), begrapschen (German), macać [imperfective] (Polish), pomacać [perfective] (Polish), obmacywać [imperfective] (Polish), obmacać [perfective] (Polish), apalpar (Portuguese), тро́гать (trógatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), щу́пать (ščúpatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), ла́пать (lápatʹ) [colloquial, imperfective] (Russian), manosear (Spanish), sobar (Spanish), kipôtter (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-T4f0PEZy Disambiguation of 'to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way': 4 4 2 85 2 3
  5. (by extension) To clumsily dig through something. Tags: broadly Translations (to clumsily dig through something): befummeln (German), 穴を掘る (ana o horu) (Japanese), 掘る (horu) (Japanese), ша́рить (šáritʹ) [imperfective, intransitive] (Russian), ры́ться (rýtʹsja) [imperfective, intransitive] (Russian), копа́ться (kopátʹsja) [imperfective, intransitive] (Russian), рыть (rytʹ) [imperfective, transitive] (Russian), копа́ть (kopátʹ) [imperfective, transitive] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-qfEM0RP7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 32 32 6 2 2 20 4 Disambiguation of 'to clumsily dig through something': 8 2 1 1 88 1
  6. (transitive, dated) To flatter. Tags: dated, transitive
    Sense id: en-paw-en-verb-2915pBit
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: palpate, paw off Translations (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof): škrábat [imperfective] (Czech), škrábnout [perfective] (Czech), hrabat (tlapou, nohou) [imperfective] (Czech), kuopia (Finnish), huke (Maori), skrape (Norwegian Bokmål)
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof': 9 26 29 22 7 7

Inflected forms

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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "poot"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "qadam",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "roman": "tʻatʻ",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "թաթ"
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          "code": "av",
          "lang": "Avar",
          "roman": "kʷačʼ",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "квачӏ"
        },
        {
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          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "pəncə"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "lápa",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ла́па"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "thaba",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "থাবা"
        },
        {
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "lápa",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ла́па"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ccc",
          "lang": "Chamicuro",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "kujtu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "腳"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiǎo",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "脚"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhuǎ",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "爪"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhuǎzi",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "爪子"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fán",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "蹯"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ckt",
          "lang": "Chukchi",
          "roman": "jagyḷgyn",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "ягыԓгын"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "packa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tlapa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tlapka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "pote"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "poot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "piedo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "käpp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "tassu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "käpälä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "patte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pouta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gadoupa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "tati",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "თათი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Pfote"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "pódi",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "πόδι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kaf",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "כַּף"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "pañjā",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "पंजा"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "mancs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "loppa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "cakar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "käpälä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "crág"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zampa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "あし",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ashi",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "足"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "あしのうら",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ashi no ura",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "足の裏"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "taban",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "табан"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "cəəng",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "ជើង"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "bal",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "발"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "taman",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "таман"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "tīn",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "ຕີນ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pēs"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "patta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ķepa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "letena"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "šépa",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ше́па"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "kaki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "cakar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "pawe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "tavxaj",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "тавхай"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "bikeeʼ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nrn",
          "lang": "Norn",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "glomek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "pote"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "pençe",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "پنچه"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "panje",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "پنجه"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "panjul",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "پنجول"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Poot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "łapa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "labă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lápa",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ла́па"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "spòg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "шапа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "šapa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "packa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "laba"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "tačko"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "alt",
          "lang": "Southern Altai",
          "roman": "tabaš",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "табаш"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zarpa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "garra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "tass"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "panja",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "панҷа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tt",
          "lang": "Tatar",
          "roman": "ayak",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "аяк"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "pañjā",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "పంజా"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "dtiin",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "ตีน"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "pati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "ayak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "pençe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "tk",
          "lang": "Turkmen",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "penje"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "lápa",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ла́па"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "panjā",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "پنجا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "penje",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "پەنجە"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "panja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "oyoq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ẑata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "chân"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "cẳng"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "lufut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "nimafut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "word": "fut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "lape",
          "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "לאַפּע"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Get your grubby paws off my things!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hand."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-noun-c2qJjgTi",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A hand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "poor (non-rhotic with cure-force merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pour (non-rhotic with horse-hoarse merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "par (non-rhotic with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pa (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg/En-uk-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg/En-us-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pô"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paw"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "pawe"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English pawe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "poue"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French poue",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "poe"
      },
      "expansion": "poe",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*pōta"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *pōta",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "poot"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch poot",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Pote"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Pote",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Pfote"
      },
      "expansion": "German Pfote",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*pōtōn",
        "t": "to put, stick, plant"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*putōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *putōną",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "potian",
        "t": "to push"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English potian (“to push”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "pȳtan",
        "t": "to put out, poke out"
      },
      "expansion": "pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "pota",
        "t": "to stick"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic pota (“to stick”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "putër"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian putër",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten 'to plant'), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”), Albanian putër 'paw'). More at put.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paws",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paw (third-person singular simple present paws, present participle pawing, simple past and past participle pawed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paw"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "palpate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "paw off"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 1 32 32 6 2 2 20 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-verb-C9QQ6a1P",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 3 1 1 4 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go through something",
          "word": "tonkia"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To gently push on something with a paw."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-verb-iWqgsMnI",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 84 2 2 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to gently push on something",
          "word": "käpälöidä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 84 2 2 3 3",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ashi de osu",
          "sense": "to gently push on something",
          "word": "足で押す"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-verb-sBVh0u0M",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1997 August 17, Robert Spector, misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)",
          "text": "IronMan used to be good in this way, back in the '80s. […] They wouldn't subscribe to the old, \"Let's put a male bodybuilder with silicone babes pawing him\" cover that's mainstay now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 October 26, Amy McWilliams, quoting Verbotene, rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet)",
          "text": "So, Katherine was out with Luke and they were both quite dolled up and swoon-worthy. Katherine fawned all over Luke and pawed him, but to what end? Was Stefan supposed to believe that Luke and Katherine have some sort of a thing going? What was the point of this display from Katherine's perspective?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 July 18, Lurker Dave, rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Usenet)",
          "text": "Subtlety is great, but what exactly happened with Jessica and the cop during sex that he locked her up afterwards? Also, what was the item she nicked from his shirt while she pawed him?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14",
          "text": "Tonight there are no drug deals, no fights, only the random foolishness of the young and inebriated. They stagger with linked arms down the middle of the street. They paw at each other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Illeana Douglas, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "He was good-looking, masculine, funny, charismatic and he could dance the cha-cha-cha. And he’s never a brute. He’s flirting with women but he’s not pawing them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To touch someone in a sexual way."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-verb-T4f0PEZy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grope"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "osahávat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ohmatávat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "gramse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "betasten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "käpälöidä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "lääppiä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "tripoter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "peloter"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "betatschen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "begrapschen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "macać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "pomacać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "obmacywać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "obmacać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "apalpar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "trógatʹ",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "тро́гать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ščúpatʹ",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "щу́пать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lápatʹ",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ла́пать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "manosear"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "sobar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 2 85 2 3",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
          "word": "kipôtter"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "2 1 32 32 6 2 2 20 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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      ],
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        "To clumsily dig through something."
      ],
      "id": "en-paw-en-verb-qfEM0RP7",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) To clumsily dig through something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "word": "befummeln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ana o horu",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "word": "穴を掘る"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "horu",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "word": "掘る"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "šáritʹ",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "ша́рить"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rýtʹsja",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "ры́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "kopátʹsja",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "копа́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rytʹ",
          "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective",
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "рыть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 2 1 1 88 1",
          "code": "ru",
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        "To flatter."
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        [
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          "flatter"
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        "(transitive, dated) To flatter."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poː/",
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        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
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      "homophone": "poor (non-rhotic with cure-force merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pour (non-rhotic with horse-hoarse merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "par (non-rhotic with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pa (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "pô"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pä"
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    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "škrábat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "škrábnout"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hrabat (tlapou, nohou)"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "kuopia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "huke"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "9 26 29 22 7 7",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "skrape"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
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        "Father; pa."
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        "(nonstandard or rustic) Father; pa."
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        {
          "word": "pawpaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "pa"
        },
        {
          "word": "papa"
        },
        {
          "word": "father"
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        {
          "word": "dad"
        },
        {
          "word": "daddy"
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        {
          "word": "pappy"
        }
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    }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
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    {
      "homophone": "poor (in non-rhotic accents)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore (in non-rhotic accents)"
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      "homophone": "pour (in non-rhotic accents)"
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    {
      "enpr": "pô"
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}
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English verbs",
    "Requests for gender in Telugu entries",
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    "en:Male family members",
    "pl:Bodily fluids",
    "pl:Fowls",
    "pl:Male animals",
    "pl:Medical signs and symptoms"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "hoof"
    },
    {
      "word": "talon"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "bear paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bearspaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "bear's-paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "catpaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "cat's paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "chicken paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "fox's paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "give paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "kangaroo paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "monkey's paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "paddy paw"
    },
    {
      "word": "paw at"
    },
    {
      "word": "pawmark"
    },
    {
      "word": "pawpad"
    },
    {
      "word": "pawprint"
    },
    {
      "word": "tiger paw"
    }
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        "3": "pawe"
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      "expansion": "Middle English pawe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fro",
        "3": "poue"
      },
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "poe"
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      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
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      },
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "Pote"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Pote",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
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      },
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      "expansion": "Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”)",
      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Icelandic pota (“to stick”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "putër"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian putër",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English pawe, from Old French poue, poe, from Frankish *pōta (compare Dutch poot, Low German Pote, German Pfote), from Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”) (compare Dutch poten 'to plant'), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (compare Old English potian (“to push”), pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”), Icelandic pota (“to stick”), Albanian putër 'paw'). More at put.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paw (plural paws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paw"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Holonym: limb"
        },
        {
          "text": "Meronyms: claw, finger"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soft",
          "soft"
        ],
        [
          "foot",
          "foot"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "quadruped",
          "quadruped"
        ],
        [
          "claw",
          "claw"
        ],
        [
          "nail",
          "nail"
        ],
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hand"
        },
        {
          "word": "foot"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English humorous terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Get your grubby paws off my things!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A hand."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "poor (non-rhotic with cure-force merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pour (non-rhotic with horse-hoarse merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "par (non-rhotic with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pa (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg/En-uk-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg/En-us-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pô"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pä"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "poot"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "putër"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qadam",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قَدَم"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʻatʻ",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "թաթ"
    },
    {
      "code": "av",
      "lang": "Avar",
      "roman": "kʷačʼ",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "квачӏ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "pəncə"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "lápa",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ла́па"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "thaba",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "থাবা"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lápa",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ла́па"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pota"
    },
    {
      "code": "ccc",
      "lang": "Chamicuro",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "kujtu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "腳"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiǎo",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "脚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuǎ",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "爪"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuǎzi",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "爪子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fán",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "蹯"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckt",
      "lang": "Chukchi",
      "roman": "jagyḷgyn",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "ягыԓгын"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "packa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tlapa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tlapka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pote"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poot"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "piedo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "käpp"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "tassu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "käpälä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "patte"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pouta"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gadoupa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tati",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "თათი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pfote"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pódi",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πόδι"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kaf",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "כַּף"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pañjā",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "पंजा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "mancs"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "loppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "cakar"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "käpälä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "crág"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zampa"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ashi",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "足"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あしのうら",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ashi no ura",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "足の裏"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "taban",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "табан"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cəəng",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "ជើង"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bal",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "발"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "taman",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "таман"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "tīn",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "ຕີນ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pēs"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "patta"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ķepa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "letena"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "šépa",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ше́па"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "kaki"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "cakar"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "pawe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "tavxaj",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "тавхай"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "bikeeʼ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrn",
      "lang": "Norn",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glomek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "pote"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "pençe",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "پنچه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "panje",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "پنجه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "panjul",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "پنجول"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Poot"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "łapa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "labă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lápa",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ла́па"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spòg"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шапа"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "šapa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "packa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tačko"
    },
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "roman": "tabaš",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "табаш"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pata"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zarpa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "garra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tass"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "panja",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "панҷа"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "ayak",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "аяк"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "pañjā",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "పంజా"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "dtiin",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "ตีน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "pati"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "ayak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "pençe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "penje"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lápa",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ла́па"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "panjā",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "پنجا"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "penje",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "پەنجە"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "panja"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "oyoq"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sata"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ẑata"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "chân"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "cẳng"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "lufut"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "nimafut"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "word": "fut"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pate"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "lape",
      "sense": "soft foot of an animal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "לאַפּע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paw"
}

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    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Frankish",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English verbs",
    "Requests for gender in Telugu entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔː",
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    "en:Male family members",
    "pl:Bodily fluids",
    "pl:Fowls",
    "pl:Male animals",
    "pl:Medical signs and symptoms"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "pawe"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English pawe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "poue"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "poe"
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      "expansion": "poe",
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        "3": "*pōta"
      },
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "poot"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch poot",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Pote"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Pote",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Pfote"
      },
      "expansion": "German Pfote",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*pōtōn",
        "t": "to put, stick, plant"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *pōtōn (“to put, stick, plant”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*putōną"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "potian",
        "t": "to push"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English potian (“to push”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "pȳtan",
        "t": "to put out, poke out"
      },
      "expansion": "pȳtan (“to put out, poke out”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "pota",
        "t": "to stick"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic pota (“to stick”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "putër"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian putër",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paws",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paw"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "palpate"
    },
    {
      "word": "paw off"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To gently push on something with a paw."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an animal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 August 17, Robert Spector, misc.fitness.weights (Usenet)",
          "text": "IronMan used to be good in this way, back in the '80s. […] They wouldn't subscribe to the old, \"Let's put a male bodybuilder with silicone babes pawing him\" cover that's mainstay now.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 October 26, Amy McWilliams, quoting Verbotene, rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet)",
          "text": "So, Katherine was out with Luke and they were both quite dolled up and swoon-worthy. Katherine fawned all over Luke and pawed him, but to what end? Was Stefan supposed to believe that Luke and Katherine have some sort of a thing going? What was the point of this display from Katherine's perspective?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 July 18, Lurker Dave, rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Usenet)",
          "text": "Subtlety is great, but what exactly happened with Jessica and the cop during sex that he locked her up afterwards? Also, what was the item she nicked from his shirt while she pawed him?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14",
          "text": "Tonight there are no drug deals, no fights, only the random foolishness of the young and inebriated. They stagger with linked arms down the middle of the street. They paw at each other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Illeana Douglas, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "He was good-looking, masculine, funny, charismatic and he could dance the cha-cha-cha. And he’s never a brute. He’s flirting with women but he’s not pawing them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To touch someone in a sexual way."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grope"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To clumsily dig through something."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) To clumsily dig through something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To flatter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flatter",
          "flatter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To flatter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "poor (non-rhotic with cure-force merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pour (non-rhotic with horse-hoarse merger)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "par (non-rhotic with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pa (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)"
    },
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg/En-us-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pô"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pä"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go through something",
      "word": "tonkia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to gently push on something",
      "word": "käpälöidä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ashi de osu",
      "sense": "to gently push on something",
      "word": "足で押す"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "škrábat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "škrábnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "hrabat (tlapou, nohou)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "kuopia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "huke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof",
      "word": "skrape"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "osahávat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ohmatávat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "gramse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "betasten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "käpälöidä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "lääppiä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "tripoter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "peloter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "betatschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "begrapschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "macać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pomacać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "obmacywać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "obmacać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "apalpar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trógatʹ",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "тро́гать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ščúpatʹ",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "щу́пать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lápatʹ",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ла́пать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "manosear"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "sobar"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way",
      "word": "kipôtter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "word": "befummeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ana o horu",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "word": "穴を掘る"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "horu",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "word": "掘る"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šáritʹ",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "ша́рить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýtʹsja",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "ры́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kopátʹsja",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "копа́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rytʹ",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "рыть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kopátʹ",
      "sense": "to clumsily dig through something",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "копа́ть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paw"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔː",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔː/1 syllable",
    "en:Male family members",
    "pl:Bodily fluids",
    "pl:Fowls",
    "pl:Male animals",
    "pl:Medical signs and symptoms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pawpaw"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "The word probably has an origin in baby talk: see ‘pa’.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paw (plural paws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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    "paw"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pa"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English rustic terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Father; pa."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Father",
          "father"
        ],
        [
          "pa",
          "pa"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "nonstandard or rustic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard or rustic) Father; pa."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pawpaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "pa"
        },
        {
          "word": "papa"
        },
        {
          "word": "father"
        },
        {
          "word": "dad"
        },
        {
          "word": "daddy"
        },
        {
          "word": "pappy"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "poor (in non-rhotic accents)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pore (in non-rhotic accents)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "pour (in non-rhotic accents)"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg/En-us-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-us-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-paw.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg/En-uk-paw.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-uk-paw.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "pô"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paw"
}

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