Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Archness; good-humored shrewdness.
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Examples
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That kind of pawkiness is fitting in a dictionary edited and published in Edinburgh and which defines pawky as a Scots word meaning "drily or slyly humorous."
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"As Mistress Bonniman's, for enstance?" suggested Mrs. Croale, interrogatively, and with just the least trace of pawkiness in the tone.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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