paw• I watched a cat pawing at butterflies in the courtyard.• He paws at me, licks me, nuzzles me and I talk back.• The ground was freshly pawed by deer, and the smooth black earth showed the criss-cross pattern of their hoofprints.• Never, not even when some aroused, overweight, uglyCasanova had tried to paw her.• There were guys coming in almost every night, groping and pawing me just because I served them a beer or two.• First he drank too much, then he started pawing me.• The horsespawed, shaking their manes and switchingtails, and harnessjangled.• The cat turned and looked at them, and it pawed the air.