Word: pawin
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...have one's nose open. A metaphor of sexual passion: "She had his nose so wide open he was pawin' at the ground...
...stewed to the gills, crocked, see, and so he grabs me in his arms and he kisses me, which is normal since he is my pa, but when he starts pawin' me all over and gettin' fresh and all, and I tell him hey nunodatstuff because I know damn well what he's drivin' at, the bastard, but when I tell him no no never, like I said, he goes to the door an' locks it an' shove's the key in his pocket, and you shoulda seen the way he was rollin...
...much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through rising prices to buy what it wanted as a berry picker reaches into a nettle patch. "Sure, they're buyin'," said a Boston salesgirl, "but they're lookin' and pawin' and hemmin' and hawin' before they...
...keys by 11 o'clock or I'll kill you. I don't care nothin' much about the six cents.' And he started shakin' and I went away. But come 11 o'clock and back I went and there was Coonhunter pawin' and a-scratchin' in the potater patch where he said he'd throwed the keys and I looked at him and I said. 'Coonhunter, guess I'll have to kill you. Life's uncertain but death's sure. I've come out here...
...Preaching. - In the centre John is a standin' before a big stun, a declamin' agin the worldly bishops. In the foreground people a hollerin', "Down vith the Hestablishment!" vich means the Church of Hingland. On the right you vill hobserve his 'oss, a tied to a tree-box, a pawin' of the ground and a vishin' for his hoats; and on the extreme left the bishops from the races, a sittin' in the vaggon, vith their gownds on, a listenin', and a lookin' werry black at some raggid boys and girls a sayin', "Vat do ye think of that kind...
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