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pawing, pawning
pawing (PAW ing) (verb)
Touching or grabbing in an excited or wild manner: A crowd of customers was pawing over the remaining sales items on the tables.
The puppies were playing as if they were fighting, pawing each other and rolling on the grass.
pawning (PAWN ing) (verb)
Giving someone an object as security for a loan: Goldie is in a such a bad financial situation that she was pawning her silver rings in order to buy groceries.
When Kim was pawing through the jumble sale at the store, she watched a man who was pawning off his watch to get a loan.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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