gawky
/ˈɡɔːki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The “gawky” illustrations look as though they may have been done by Belva Jean herself (Bulletin, Mar. 1989)."
- "The woman had barely come up to Seth's shoulder. Petite with curly blonde hair and a dimpled smile. Nothing at all like Francine with her plain brown hair and hazel eyes. Just looking at the woman's picture had made her feel tall and gawky."
- ""[…] Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child's party. Don't you remember the catastrophe, Ma'am, seven years ago?" "Over Mrs. Flamingo's crimson silk gown," said good-natured Mrs. Sedley. "What a gawky it was! And his sisters are not much more graceful. Lady Dobbin was at Highbury last night with three of them. Such figures! my dears.""
- "Let not the inconveniently tall, the gawkies, the Maypoles, despair."
Etymology
Etymology tree English gawk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gawky From gawk + -y.