How To Use Pawky In A Sentence
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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
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The city has an endearing couthiness and a pithy, pawky sense of humour, capable of laughing at itself (try and find that in Edinburgh).
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In the Thatcher years, he would turn more to that pawky humour which played around his head and lips throughout his career.
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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
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But these voices add a wonderful, pawky, startling texture to the account.
Voices of change
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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
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Balfour, in whom the pawky Lowland lad, proud and precise, but
Robert Louis Stevenson
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My Commonwealth readers will no doubt chalk that opinion up to my pawky colonial ways.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants
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And indeed he is in possession of a pawky sense of humour.
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So here he is on the pavement outside Southwark Crown Court, giving another of his pawky, defiant pieces to camera.
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Ye see, "says he, shaking his pawky old head," the day ye find a priest sittin 'in the court at Trinity is a day ye'll be able to skate over Dublin Bay from Bray to Balbriggan - an' as for seein 'St Stephen's Green from the court, well, I doubt if even ould Faylen could see that far from heaven, where he's been this five-and-thirty years, God rest his soul.
THE NUMBERS
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In consequence the movie is visually remarkable as it tries to keep up with the frenetic activities of secret agent Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise accepting an impossible mission for the fourth time and his new trio of likable operatives: beautiful, resourceful Paula Patton, pawky computer wizard Simon Pegg and constantly fretting analyst Jeremy Renner.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – review
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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
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She continued as she began - pawky, forthright, uncensored.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Pawky Scottish humour like that won the first run rave reviews but it was over before its audience could grow much beyond a small but loyal band who stumbled across the show coming back late and half-cut from the pub.
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Ron was ebullient and optimistic, had a pawky sense of humour, and loved good food, wine, and entertaining.
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But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch.
The Hermits
