gawky

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(especially of a tall young person) awkward in the way they move or behave: a shy gawky teenager gawkily adverb gawkiness noun [U]

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

gawkyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus gawkyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary gawkyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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gauche gaucho gaudy gauge gaunt gauntlet gauze gave gavel gavotte Gawd gawk

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In this entry, gawky is tagged as adjective.

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