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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Awkward; ungainly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Awkward in manner or bearing; inapt in behavior; clumsy; clownish.
  • noun ; pl. gawkies (-kiz). Same as gawk, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking grace in movement or posture

Etymologies

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(UK) From gawk (verb or noun). (US, Southern, Appalachian) Possibly an interpretative pronunciation of gauche.

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