I don't want to be made a cat's paw.
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Paw
//pɔː//
Synonyms for "paw" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (64)
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More general
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
More specific
4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescoordinate
50 entriesShowing 16 of 50 words.
derived
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
entails
1 entrieshas context
3 entrieshas property
1 entriesholonym
1 entriesis a
5 entriesmanner of
2 entriesmeronym
2 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
116 translations across 80 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- poot noun (soft foot of an animal)
Albanian
1 entries- putër noun (soft foot of an animal)
Arabic
1 entries- قَدَم noun (soft foot of an animal)
Armenian
1 entries- թաթ noun (soft foot of an animal)
Avar
1 entries- квачӏ noun (soft foot of an animal)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pəncə noun (soft foot of an animal)
Belarusian
1 entries- ла́па noun (soft foot of an animal)
Bengali
1 entries- থাবা noun (soft foot of an animal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ла́па noun (soft foot of an animal)
Catalan
1 entries- pota noun (soft foot of an animal)
Chamicuro
1 entries- kujtu noun (soft foot of an animal)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 爪 noun (soft foot of an animal)
- 爪子 noun (soft foot of an animal)
- 腳 /脚 noun (soft foot of an animal)
- 蹯 noun (soft foot of an animal)
Chukchi
1 entries- ягыԓгын noun (soft foot of an animal)
Czech
4 entries- packa noun (soft foot of an animal)
- tlapa noun (soft foot of an animal)
- tlapka noun (soft foot of an animal)
- hrabat verb (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof)
Danish
1 entries- pote noun (soft foot of an animal)
Dutch
2 entries- poot noun (soft foot of an animal)
- schrapen verb (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof)
Esperanto
1 entries- piedo noun (soft foot of an animal)
Estonian
1 entries- käpp noun (soft foot of an animal)
Finnish
4 entries- käpälä noun (soft foot of an animal)
- tassu noun (soft foot of an animal)
- kuopia verb (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof)
- käpälöidä verb (to gently push on something)
French
1 entries- patte noun (soft foot of an animal)
Galician
2 entries- gadoupa noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pouta noun (soft foot of an animal)
Georgian
1 entries- თათი noun (soft foot of an animal)
German
1 entries- Pfote noun (soft foot of an animal)
Greek
1 entries- πόδι noun (soft foot of an animal)
Hebrew
1 entries- כַּף noun (soft foot of an animal)
Hindi
1 entries- पंजा noun (soft foot of an animal)
Hungarian
1 entries- mancs noun (soft foot of an animal)
Icelandic
1 entries- loppa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Indonesian
1 entries- cakar noun (soft foot of an animal)
Ingrian
2 entries- käpälä noun (soft foot of an animal)
- laappa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Irish
1 entries- crág noun (soft foot of an animal)
Italian
1 entries- zampa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Japanese
3 entries- 足 noun (soft foot of an animal)
- 足の裏 noun (soft foot of an animal)
- 足で押す verb (to gently push on something)
Kazakh
1 entries- табан noun (soft foot of an animal)
Khmer
1 entries- ជើង noun (soft foot of an animal)
Korean
1 entries- 발 noun (soft foot of an animal)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- таман noun (soft foot of an animal)
Lao
1 entries- ຕີນ noun (soft foot of an animal)
Latin
2 entries- patta noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pēs noun (soft foot of an animal)
Latvian
1 entries- ķepa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- letena noun (soft foot of an animal)
Macedonian
1 entries- ше́па noun (soft foot of an animal)
Malay
2 entries- cakar noun (soft foot of an animal)
- kaki noun (soft foot of an animal)
Marathi
1 entries- पंजा noun (soft foot of an animal)
Middle English
1 entries- pawe noun (soft foot of an animal)
Mongolian
1 entries- тавхай noun (soft foot of an animal)
Māori
1 entries- huke verb (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof)
Navajo
1 entries- bikeeʼ noun (soft foot of an animal)
Norn
1 entries- glomek noun (soft foot of an animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- pote noun (soft foot of an animal)
- skrape verb (to feel or scrape with a paw or hoof)
Occitan
1 entries- pata noun (soft foot of an animal)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- كف noun (soft foot of an animal)
- پنچه noun (soft foot of an animal)
Persian
2 entries- پنجه noun (soft foot of an animal)
- پنجول noun (soft foot of an animal)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Poot noun (soft foot of an animal)
Polish
1 entries- łapa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Portuguese
1 entries- pata noun (soft foot of an animal)
Romanian
1 entries- labă noun (soft foot of an animal)
Russian
1 entries- ла́па noun (soft foot of an animal)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- spòg noun (soft foot of an animal)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šapa noun (soft foot of an animal)
- шапа noun (soft foot of an animal)
Slovak
2 entries- laba noun (soft foot of an animal)
- packa noun (soft foot of an animal)
Slovene
1 entries- tačko noun (soft foot of an animal)
Southern Altai
3 entries- табаш noun (soft foot of an animal)
- таман noun (soft foot of an animal)
- тамаш noun (soft foot of an animal)
Spanish
4 entries- garra noun (soft foot of an animal)
- mano noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pata noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pie noun (soft foot of an animal)
Swedish
1 entries- tass noun (soft foot of an animal)
Tajik
1 entries- панҷа noun (soft foot of an animal)
Tatar
1 entries- аяк noun (soft foot of an animal)
Telugu
1 entries- పంజా noun (soft foot of an animal)
Thai
1 entries- ตีน noun (soft foot of an animal)
Turkish
3 entries- ayak noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pati noun (soft foot of an animal)
- pençe noun (soft foot of an animal)
Turkmen
1 entries- penje noun (soft foot of an animal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ла́па noun (soft foot of an animal)
Urdu
1 entries- پنجا noun (soft foot of an animal)
Uyghur
1 entries- پەنجە noun (soft foot of an animal)
Uzbek
2 entries- oyoq noun (soft foot of an animal)
- panja noun (soft foot of an animal)
Venetan
2 entries- sata noun (soft foot of an animal)
- ẑata noun (soft foot of an animal)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chân noun (soft foot of an animal)
- cẳng noun (soft foot of an animal)
Volapük
3 entries- fut noun (soft foot of an animal)
- lufut noun (soft foot of an animal)
- nimafut noun (soft foot of an animal)
Walloon
1 entries- pate noun (soft foot of an animal)
Yiddish
1 entries- לאַפּע noun (soft foot of an animal)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The dog gave a yelp when I trod on its paw.
Source: tatoeba (246900)
I saw a dog with one paw bandaged.
Source: tatoeba (261637)
"Look at me," said the Fox. "For the silly reason of wanting to study, I have lost a paw." "Look at me," said the Cat. "For the same foolish reason, I have lost the sight of both eyes."
Source: tatoeba (2724551)
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