| 释义 |
▪ I. paw, n.1|pɔː|
Forms: 4–5 powe, 4–6 pawe, 5–6 Sc. pow, (poll), 6– paw.
[ME. a. OF. powe, poue, var. of poe (pooe) = Pr. pauta; app. of Frankish origin, pointing to an Old Low Ger. (Niederrhein.) *pauta, whence MDu. pôte, Du. poot, 14th c. Niederrhein. pôte, whence HG. pfote paw. F. patte is generally supposed to be related.
The ulterior history and relationship of OLG. *pauta is unknown. Franck has suggested the existence of a Germanic ablaut series peut-, paut-, put- (pot-) in the sense ‘poke, stir’, to which he would refer the frequentatives, Du. peuteren to finger, pick, LG. pöteren, and Eng. potter.]
1. a. The foot of a beast having claws or nails. (Distinguished from hoof.)
13..Coer de L. 1082 Fast aboute on the wowes, Abrod he [the lion] spredde alle hys powes. a1400Isumbras 181 So come a lyoun..And in hir pawes scho hent the childe. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 249 The wod lyoun..With his rude pollis in the mantill rocht sa. 1513Douglas æneis xi. xiii. 70 Ane hydduus wolfis..With chaftis braid, quhyte teith, and bustuus powis. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 288 The lyons in theyr rage, Myght catche the in theyr pawes, And gnawe the in theyr iawes! 1530Palsgr. 252/2 Pawe of a beest, patte. 1611Bible Lev. xi. 27 Whatsoeuer goeth vpon his pawes, among all maner of beasts. 1698Froger Voy. 159 An old Monkey..with a great piece of Bacon in his Paws. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 28 The squirrel..sits up on its hinder legs, and uses the fore paws as hands. 1871L. Carroll Through Looking-Glass i, Kitty sat..on her knee,..now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball [of worsted].
b. The foot of any animal; esp. the claw of a bird. rare. Cf. F. patte (not however said of birds of prey).
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 33 And with hys grym pawes stronge..Me..he [the eagle] hente. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 95 The griping paws of a hungry Sparhawk. 1607Heywood Wom. killed w. Kindn. Wks. 1874 II. 99 Mine..seisd a Fowle Within her talents; and you saw her pawes Full of the Feathers. 1814F. Burney Wanderer V. 138 Where not even a bird could find a twig for the sole of his paw. 1843Marryat M. Violet xliv, The mud vampire, a kind of spider leech, with sixteen short paws.
c. ? Short for cat's-paw.
1824Galt Rothelan III. 225 His money became as paws to my vices.
2. a. Contemptuously or jocularly applied to the hand, esp. when clumsy, or awkwardly used. colloq.
1605Chapman All Fooles Plays 1873 I. 141, I made no more adoe, but layd these pawes Close on his shoulders. 1711Swift Midas 70 Midas' dirty paws. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 323 He held both Hands out, and a fine pair of Paws shew'd he. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 219 He..laid his hand upon my knee! ‘Take away your paw’, said I. 1887E. E. Money Dutch Maiden (1888) 331 He stuck out his paw, and said Good-bye.
b. transf. ‘Hand’ in the sense of handiwork; handwriting, ‘fist’; signature.
1628Prynne Cens. Cozens 3 You may discouer the Authors qualities and conditions, by this his Paw, and Handyworke. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. (1852) App. 610 To this instrument were set the paws of Edgeremet and five more of their sagamores. 1784F. Burney Diary 17 Apr., The sight of your paw..would be well worth all the pence I have.
3. [f. paw v.] The action, or an act, of pawing.
1611Cotgr., Onglade, a scratch, or paw with, or the print, or marke of, nayles; a nayle-marke. 1847Whittier Drovers vi, With toss of horn and tail, And paw of hoof,..They leap some farmer's broken pale.
4. attrib. and Comb., as paw-mark, paw print (also fig.), paw-stroke, paw-tread; paw-like adj. Also pawful.
1925F. M. Ford No More Parades ii. 73 She resembled a white Persian cat luxuriating, sticking out a tentative pawful of expanding claws. 1964D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xix. 173 The invaders replied very effectively to the warnings, and the Prodigal and his family [of lions] had a pawful of trouble.
1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. 256 The artist's beautiful handiwork..upon its paw-like feet.
1894‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. June 234/2 Are you going to ornament the royal palaces with nigger paw-marks? 1929D. H. Lawrence Lett. (1932) 833 Such dark paw-marks of the wind on the sea! 1975Sunday Times 16 Nov. 44/4 Every pawmark shows up on those virgin white surfaces.
1925Scribner's Mag. July 33/1, I saw..the curious paw print of a porcupine, with its little pebbled markings. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling iv. 35 All about were the paw-prints of the small things. 1963Times 25 Jan. 12/7 The badger, whose paw⁓prints are square-fronted and easily recognizable, is better off. 1968C. Nicole Self Lovers vii. 88 The whole thing has his pawprints all over it. His speciality is taking his victims swimming at dawn. 1977D. Harsent Dreams of Dead 55 Dark ooze by the apple tree stippled with massive paw-prints.
1902J. Conrad Heart of Darkness 119 Playful paw-strokes.
1892Pall Mall G. 19 Dec. 6/2, I examine the powder round the doors for footmarks or paw-treads.
Add:[2.] [a.] paws off: see off adv. 9 c. paws off, Pompey!: see *Pompey n. 1.
▪ II. paw, n.2 Sc.|pɔː, pɑː|
[Origin unknown: identity with F. pas ‘step’, and paw n.1, has been suggested; but there are difficulties with both.]
In the phrases, to play a paw, to play a trick; to play one's paws, to play one's part in acting or in life; (not) to play paw, (not) to make the slightest movement with hand or foot.
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxv. 14 Remane with me and tary still And se quha playis best thair pawis. 1690Killiecrankie in Jacob. Songs (1887) 39 They thought the devil had been there, That played them sic a paw then. a1700Jock o' the Side xiv. in Child Ballads (1889) III. 480/1 His neck in twa I wat they hae wrung, Wi hand or foot he neer playd paw. 1823Hogg in Blackw. Mag. Mar. 313/2 Some day when ye couldna play paw to help yoursels.
▪ III. † paw, n.3 Obs.
An anglicized representation of F. pas ‘step’. grand paw, F. grand pas.
1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 30 They indeed allowed to merits rewards and admissions to honour by grand paw's and deliberate steps of ascent. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 139 They are taught little more than the Grand Paw, and to make a Salam.
▪ IV. paw, n.4 U.S.|pɔː|
= pa1.
1903Dialect Notes II. 324 Paw, maw, nouns. Father; mother. (In the North pa; ma.) 1919E. O'Neill Rope in Moon of Caribees 183 Come on back to the house, Paw. It's gittin' near supper time. 1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 46 Your paw told you to stay out that tree. 1933J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore iv. 67 He said he had to leave his home, his paw had married twice. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vii. 163 His paw said, ‘Son, Ah don't see how you gointer do dat.’ 1939in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore LII. 108 I am Peetie Wheet Straw, the devil's son-in-law, The woman I married, old Satan was her paw. 1942Ade Let. 1 Feb. (1973) 228 The little red school-house is a thing of the past but don't forget that it turned out some of our best people, including possibly your paw and maw and, certainly, your grandparents. 1968E. J. Gaines Bloodline 247 He follow his mom and paw out the house. 1975J. Gores Hammett (1976) xiv. 102 ‘What's the brother's name?’ ‘Don't rightly know. May be my paw—.’
▪ V. † paw, a. slang or colloq. Obs.|pɔː|
[app. a variant of pah ‘nasty, improper, unbecoming’, adj. use of pah int., q.v. Cf. paw int.]
Improper, naughty, obscene. See also paw-paw.
1668Davenant Man's the Master iv. i. Wks. 1874 V. 72 This Tarquin-steward would have kist me by force. Steph. Kiss you! fye, that's a paw-word. 1695Congreve Love for L. v. iv, O fie, marrying is a paw Thing. 1706E. Wells Answ. Dowley 46 A paw word which is not fit to be written. 1730T. Cibber Lover ii. 23 Læt. So you hold it politick to be a Rogue? Gran. Oh, that's a paw Word.
▪ VI. paw, v.|pɔː|
[f. paw n.1 Cf. to claw.]
1. To touch or strike with the paw.
a. trans. Also with adv. expressing the resulting condition (quot. 1891).
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle iii. iii, I ha sent for a couple of beares shall paw him. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. ii. 161 The sporting Lyon Paws the wanton Bear. 1791Cowper Odyss. x. 264 [Circe's lions and wolves] Paw'd them in blandishment. 1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. xiii. 177 One of his eyes was pawed out by a bear.
b. intr.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 464 The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. 1707Hearne Collect. 1 Nov. (O.H.S.) II. 67 A Lyoness, pawing upon y⊇ arms of France. 1713Steele Guard. No. 146 ⁋5 He [a young lion] did some mischief by pawing and playing with people.
2. To strike or scrape the ground with the hoofs: said of a horse, etc.
a. intr.
1611Bible Job xxxix. 21 He paweth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength. 1690Newsletter 30 Aug. in Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 339 The two horses..pawed over the iron spikes with their forefeet. 1704Pope Windsor For. 152 Th' impatient courser..pawing, seems to beat the distant plain. 1877Talmage 50 Serm. 8 The horses paw and neigh to get into the stream.
b. trans. (the ground, etc.). Also transf. of a man (quot. 1887). Also with adv. (quot. 1891).
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 749 He paws the Ground. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 92 With Ears And Tail erect, neighing he paws the Ground. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 468 The bulls are..fond of pawing the ground. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xii. 78 He listened with..his foot pawing the mat. 1891Mrs. L. Adams Bonnie Kate II. iii. 77 No more roans would paw up the roadway.
3. a. trans. To pass the hand over, touch with the hand, handle; esp. awkwardly, coarsely, indelicately, or rudely. Now esp. to fondle (usu. a woman) lasciviously. Also const. about, over. colloq.
1604T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 27 His palm shall be pawed with pence. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 17 The obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread, as familiarly as his Tavern Biskit. 1701Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i, Have you been pawing me all this morning with them dirty fists of yours? 1847Tennyson Princess i. 20 Our great court-Galen..paw'd his beard, and mutter'd ‘catalepsy’. 1889A. R. Hope in Boy's Own Paper 3 Aug. 699/3, I wish she would not paw me so. 1902Ade Girl Proposition 58 He told himself that he was a Chump for continuing to worship one who could be pawed over and man-handled by anything that wore a Derby Hat. 1918H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xi. 387 A fellow had to..watch..Joan being ordered about and..pawed about. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 176 Other men were liable to pounce on you and try to paw you about and kiss you. 1934E. O'Neill Days without End ii. 70 Walter was drunk, pawing over his latest female. 1942A. Christie Body in Library ii. 24, I hate to see a girl..who..lets a disgusting Central European paw her about. 1955G. Freeman Liberty Man i. iii. 51 Maureen had been mad for him to go on pawing her for hours last night. 1959‘C. Carnac’ Death of Lady Killer xii. 136 A real dirty tyke he was, always trying to paw any woman within reach. 1975J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo vii. 153 Fish, who had decent feelings, would have preferred to be pawed in privacy. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxxi. 240 The outraged shopper said..that when he saw her looking at him he had winked and pawed her.
b. intr. To pass the hand clumsily, awkwardly, or rudely. to paw on or paw over, to handle, feel, or finger awkwardly.
1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iv. 134 You will not let the mob..paw over all my limbs. 1876T. Hardy Madding Crowd viii, A hand pawing about the door for the bobbin. 1886Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Dec. 2/4 Those young ladies who paw upon the pianoforte.
Hence ˈpawing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 96/2 Under Horses, make..planks of Holm or Oke, that..by their pawing they may not spoyl both their hoofs and the pavement. 1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman Pleasure II. 134 The tiresome pawing and toying. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. v. xxii, Like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound. 1880M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Ser. ii. Keats (1888) 104 Admirers whose pawing and fondness does..harm to the fame of Keats. 1906E. Nesbit Railway Children xii. 256 Like most boys..[he] hated..kissing and holding of hands. He called all such things ‘pawing’. 1931W. Faulkner Sanctuary xix. 205 Impassable, swinging hands with their escorts, objects of casual and puppyish pawings, they dawdled up the hill toward the college. 1935Scrutiny IV. 128 Revolutionary feeling is for her bound up with an incessant kissing and pawing between and among the sexes. 1951J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle iii. v. 82 Their pawing hands stretched out..to feel and finger their prisoners. 1977H. Osborne White Poppy xxix. 194 A certain amount of kissing and pawing, but absolutely no more. 1978Times 7 Sept. 13/3 Ladies never touch their gentlemen in public... Pawing and clinging, with its nasty carnal implications, is reserved for..foreign adventuresses.
▪ VII. paw, int.
variant of pah.
1678Dryden Limberham iv. i, Paw, paw! that word honour has almost turned my stomach. |