pawk
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See Puck
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
pawk (plural pawks)
- (Scotland) A wile
- 1749, An Elegy on the Late Mass John T-, Minister of the Gospel at M--, page 16:
- So blyth was he , and fou ' of pawks; -- But yet he's dead!
- 1768, William Wilkie, Fables, page 118:
- and a laird May find a beggar sae prepar'd, Wi pawks and wiles, whar pith is wantin, As soon will mak him rue his tauntin.
- 1811, Hector Macneill, Bygane Times, and Late Come Changes:
- I guess, that yours has no the art To win about a husband's heart, Nor kens the gate wi' saftening sound, And pawks, to bring ilk project round.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown
Noun edit
pawk (plural pawks)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pawk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Jingpho edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Burmese အပေါက် (a.pauk).
Noun edit
pawk
References edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ, from *pa- + *ǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkos (“hook”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pawk m animal
Declension edit
Declension of pawk
Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “pawk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “pawk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Upper Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ, from *pa- + *ǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkos (“hook”).
Noun edit
pawk m animal
Further reading edit
- “pawk” in Soblex