pawky

How To Use pawky In A Sentence

• A good story is told of a pawky old Scot, who like many others, finds himself rather short of cash just now. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
• The city has an endearing couthiness and a pithy, pawky sense of humour, capable of laughing at itself (try and find that in Edinburgh).
• In the Thatcher years, he would turn more to that pawky humour which played around his head and lips throughout his career.
• Her father had been a souter and a pawky chiel enough, but was doited for many years, and her mother was sair dottled. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• But these voices add a wonderful, pawky, startling texture to the account. Voices of change
• Edwin Gray, head of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, proved unexpectedly pawky in warning of the dangers, but Congress repeatedly refused his pleas for more funds to police the thrifts. S&Ls: Blaming The Media
• Balfour, in whom the pawky Lowland lad, proud and precise, but Robert Louis Stevenson
• My Commonwealth readers will no doubt chalk that opinion up to my pawky colonial ways. Kenneth Hite's Journal
• the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants
• And indeed he is in possession of a pawky sense of humour.