pawk

• IPA^(key): /pɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

See Puck

• pauk

pawk (plural pawks)

1. (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.

• pawkery
• pawky

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pawk (plural pawks)

1. (obsolete) A small lobster^[1]

Borrowed from Burmese အပေါက် (a.pauk).

pawk

1. hole

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

From Proto-Slavic *paǫkъ, from *pa- + *ǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkos (“hook”).

• IPA^(key): /pawk/

pawk m anim

1. spider

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pàǭkъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpawk/
• Rhymes: -awk
• Hyphenation: pawk
• Syllabification: pawk

pawk m animal

1. (zoology) spider

• “pawk” in Soblex