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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pawky is an adjective meaning "cunning and sly". It carries one recorded sense.
cunning and sly
“the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants”
United Kingdom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pawky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.