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BNC: 35439 COCA: 27771

gawky

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
gawky /ˈgɑːki/ adjective
gawkier; gawkiest
gawky
/ˈgɑːki/
adjective
gawkier; gawkiest
Learner's definition of GAWKY
informal
: awkward and clumsy笨拙的;笨手笨脚的

— gawkily

/ˈgɑːkəli/ adverb

— gawkiness

noun [noncount]
BNC: 35439 COCA: 27771
gawkier; gawkiest
: awkward, clumsy
a gawky adolescent
gawkily adverb
gawkiness noun
gawky noun

Example Sentences

the stiff, gawky gait of a newborn colt
Recent Examples on the Web The Sims has a slapstick sense of humor fit for gawky teen years; a Sim can get dumped in the hallway, strike a T-pose for a viral challenge, and then slink away for class in the span of a minute. Wired, 16 July 2022 The moment for raabs—these gawky, uncoiffed survivors of our soul-leaching winters—is short. Jonathan Kauffman, Bon Appétit, 13 Apr. 2022 While the 11th-generation Civic has a far more streamlined body than its gawky predecessor, Honda kept the underpinnings mostly the same—and that's a good thing. Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2022 Anjana Vasan is mesmerizing as Amina, a gawky, lovelorn scientist who unexpectedly ends up as the lead guitarist for an all-women Muslim punk band, Lady Parts. The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021 For those of us who grew up with her cooking shows on public television – a TV career that began in 1963 and lasted for decades – seeing her here in all her gawky eccentricity is good for the soul. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021 The way Dunst scrunches her eyebrows and speaks in her highest register, never abandoning her character’s gawky sincerity, is a comedic gold mine. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021 Singer Luke Bryan, the gawky host of this year’s CMAs, has invited Wallen to appear onstage with him in concert recently. Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021 Other raids on art history include the pilferage of a gawky interstitial passage—a shapeless shape—from Matthias Grünewald’s ferocious crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16). Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

gawk entry 1 + -y entry 1

First Known Use

1759, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gawky was in 1759
BNC: 35439 COCA: 27771

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