gawky
Speech parts
1. gawky - Noun
2. gawky - Adjective
4. gawky - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
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Examples
a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
clumsy fingers
what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
A friend who watched one pair dourly raise four gawky chicks on bloody morsels of birds, nicknamed them “Ted and Sylvia”.
Here, there’s no mistaking that these are kids, and gawky ones at that.