pawky

• After nearly an hour's pawky, uninteresting play, the Eton captain suddenly changed his tactics. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• No race in the world possesses a richer anecdotal lore than the Jews--such pawky, even blasphemous humor, not understandable of the heathen, and to a suspicious mind Pinchas's overflowing cornucopia of such would have suggested a prior period of Continental wandering from town to town, like the Minnesingers of the middle ages, repaying the hospitality of his Jewish entertainers with a budget of good stories and gossip from the scenes of his pilgrimages Do you know the story?" —  Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
• He was asked if he did not think the sermon long: "Na, I should nae hae thocht it lang an' I'd been sitting on thorns I think the following is about as good a sample of what we call Scotch "pawky" as any I know:--A countryman had lost his wife and a favourite cow on the same day. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• He put something into his pocket and told his audience a couple of stories--dry, pawky, Scottish yarns--which he admitted were not new, not true, and not particularly relevant. —  The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
• But all in vain she praised his "pawky eyne," —  The Parish Register

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