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What (who) is GAWKY - definition
gawky
If you describe someone, especially a young person, as gawky, you mean they are awkward and clumsy.
...a gawky lad with spots.
= gangling
ADJ
gawky
I. a.
Awkward, ungainly, clownish, boorish, rustic, clumsy, raw, green, uncouth, loutish.
II. n.
Clown, boor, booby, lout, bumpkin, gawk, awkward simpleton.
gawky
¦ adjective (gawkier, gawkiest) nervously awkward and ungainly.
Derivatives
gawkily adverb
gawkiness noun
Examples of use of GAWKY
1. They work with quiet efficiency, brushing, buffing and twirling gawky teenagers into beautiful women.
2. In 1'60 Robert Zimmerman, a gawky Jewish boy from Minnesota, hitch–hiked to New York City.
3. Abhishek transformed from the gawky teenager to a strapping youth, a few inches taller than his dad.
4. But the difference was that back in the Sixties that gawky lack of street cred seemed puppyishly charming.
5. Gawky storks are also poor flyers; they rely on warm air currents to keep them aloft and can travel only short distances over bodies of water.