tried googling it but I only got the idiom and not an actual answer
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that’s how W. W. Jacobs decided to call it
If you’re cute and fuzzy, it’s a paw.
If you’re big, tailless, and (mostly) hairless (read:ape), it’s a hand. Wikipedia refers to upper gorilla extremities as arms and hands:
A 2018 study investigating the hand posture of 77 mountain gorillas[…]
I have no actual idea but that’s my general guess.
Though I wouldn’t claim it to be an objective truth, my wife has previously declared me both cute and fuzzy.
Though I may have (consensually) pawed at her on occasion, she’s never claimed that I have paws.
Dwarves have paws, elves have hands
Because the term pre-existed Darwinism.
Finally someone asking the important questions
