gawky

gawk·y (gô

)

adj. gawk·i·er, gawk·i·est

Awkward; ungainly.

gawki·ly adv.

gawky [ˈgɔːkɪ], gawkish

adj gawkier, gawkiest

1. clumsy or ungainly; awkward

2. West Yorkshire dialect left-handed

gawkily , gawkishly adv

gawkiness , gawkishness n

gawk•y (ˈgɔ ki) also gawk′ish,

adj. gawk•i•er, gawk•i•est.

awkward; ungainly; clumsy.

[1715–25]

gawk′i•ly, gawk′ish•ly, adv.

gawk′i•ness, gawk′ish•ness, n.

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Adj.

gawky - lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy

awkward - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"

gawky

adjective awkward, clumsy, lumbering, ungainly, gauche, uncouth, loutish, graceless, clownish, oafish, maladroit, lumpish, ungraceful a gawky lad with spots
elegant, graceful, self-assured, well-coordinated

Translations

gawky [ˈgɔːkɪ] ADJ (gawkier (compar) (gawkiest (superl))) → desgarbado, torpe

gawky [ˈgɔːki] adj → dégingandé(e)

gawky

adj (+er) person, movement → schlaksig, staksig (inf), → linkisch; animal → unbeholfen, staksig (inf); appearance → unbeholfen

gawky [ˈgɔːkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → goffo/a, sgraziato/a

gawky (ˈgoːki) adjective

(of a person) looking clumsy or awkward. She is tall and gawky.

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And never a rough in the assemblace--all nicely dressed fathers and mothers, young gentlemen and ladies and children; and plenty of university students and glittering officers; with here and there a gray professor, or a peaceful old lady with her knitting; and always a sprinkling of gawky foreigners.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grand- mothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair.

Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context

He says you go along for hours not hearing when you are spoken to and acting like a gawky girl.

Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context

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