pawing in English

verb
1
(of an animal) feel or scrape with a paw or hoof.
the horse rose on its strong haunches, its forelegs pawing the air

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1. Midnight came to a halt, snorting and pawing the ground.

2. Instead you kept scratching and pawing at it like a monkey, expecting new results.

3. Wagging its tail till its whole body wagged, it flung itself Adoringly at its master's trousers, pawing and wriggling in ecstasy.

4. Some of the Branles feature miming movements–"beating the washing" like a washerwoman, or pawing the ground like a horse

5. There were guys coming in almost every night, groping and pawing me just because I served them a beer or two.

6. They always thought it was feed time if the light went on and would scramble up expectantly and start pawing and whinnying.

7. In the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom, "Clopping" is a euphemism for masturbation, similarly to the furry fandom's use of the phrase "pawing off"

8. As the animal approached the two, Bellowing and pawing the ground with the strength of many earthly bulls, another door directly beneath us was opened, and from it issued the most terrific roar that ever had fallen upon my outraged ears.