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Pawing vs Pawning - What's the difference?

pawing | pawning |

As verbs the difference between pawing and pawning

is that pawing is present participle of paw while pawning is present participle of pawn.

As nouns the difference between pawing and pawning

is that pawing is the act of one who paws while pawning is the act by which something is pawned.

pawing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who paws.
  • * 1946 , Mazo de la Roche, Return to Jalna
  • Firelight could be seen reflected on the ceiling of the drawing-room. Inside the deep stone porch, the heavy door was scarred by the pawings of many generations of dogs.

    pawning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pawned.
  • * Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
  • Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless; she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her — that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets