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    Gawky \Gawk"y\ (g[add]k"[y^]), a. [Compar. Gawkier
    (g[add]k"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Gawkiest.]
    Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. --
    n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from
    stupidity, a gawk.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    gawky
    adj : lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long
    ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly
    creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out
    of his chair" [syn: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]
    [also: gawkiest, gawkier]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    68 Moby Thesaurus words for "gawky":
    all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish,
    bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy,
    clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat-chested,
    fleshless, fumbling, gangling, gangly, gauche, gaunt, gawkish,
    graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky,
    inelegant, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
    left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish,
    maladroit, meager, oafish, ponderous, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny,
    skeletal, skinny, sloppy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly,
    splay, stiff, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncouth,
    undersized, underweight, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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