paddy paw

noun

An animal's paw with a soft pad.

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Meanings

nounpaddy paw (plural paddy paws)

plural paddy paws

  1. An animal's paw with a soft pad.

    He reached out a paddy paw. Bat. Bat. The door bounced ajar. Max walked in.

    2002, Hazel Hutchins, TJ and the Cats
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    Mowgli was sitting cross-legged, and explaining things with his forefinger in his usual way, when Bagheera put out a paddy paw and pulled him over backwards into the water.

    1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, “How Fear Came”, in The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 9

    My voice was velvet-smooth. "Be careful, though. I'm not exactly defenseless myself." From my paddy-paw a talon popped, curved like a sickle moon.

    2006, Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

Origin

pad + -y + paw

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APA

paddy paw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paddy%20paw

MLA

“paddy paw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paddy%20paw. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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