Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawkiness
Literary usage of Pawkiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary by James B. Montogomerie- Fleming (1899)
"It means more to guess, to have a shrewd suspicion of, implying a certain slyness,
or pawkiness—to opine, to conjecture ..."
2. Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth: Interspersed with by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1838)
"She could have had no possible anticipation of enjoyment, when she formed the
mad-cap resolution of going thither; * pawkiness—ie cunning. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"Then there are love-songs, satirical songs, humorous songs and songs of Scottish
character and oddity, nonsense songs and songs of philosophic "pawkiness" ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... in dignified and rotund phraseology, and the ill-con- Cea»ed Scotch 'pawkiness'
which made him over-studious of his ..."
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