Pawer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who paws.
"I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, and the man who is known to one and all (women tell one another, and the wives tell the husbands) as a pawer of women. The predatory woman and the pawing man are dynamite."
- 2 a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner wordnet
Example
More examples"I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, and the man who is known to one and all (women tell one another, and the wives tell the husbands) as a pawer of women. The predatory woman and the pawing man are dynamite."
Etymology
From paw + -er.
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