What's the difference between cawky and pawky?

Cawky


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

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Pawky


Definition:

  • (a.) Arch; cunning; sly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (2) He also travelled the country in a one-man show of reminiscences, full of pawky anecdotage and even the occasional song.

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