Definitions for gawky

gawky gawk·y

Spelling: [gaw-kee]
IPA: /ˈgɔ ki/

Gawky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in gawky (agkwy).

Definitions for gawky

adjective

  1. awkward; ungainly; clumsy.

Origin of gawky

First recorded in 1715-25; gawk + -y1

Examples for gawky

The niece, rustic and gawky; the companion sour and frumpish.

Fries nuvver was no good for nobody 35 at the gawky age, nohow.

But we must all go through the gawky age; we must each of us take our turn.

Seymore Wilson, 3a3b4c3b, 8ca: He is a gawky, love-sick youth.

I never kissed her, as I intended, but I stood staring like a gawky.

And a person is never surprised at anything that a girl at the "gawky age" does.

Shea (the judge) was just as good and graceful, as he (the member) was bad and gawky.

What could she say to this gawky youth, whose face she could not even see?

The Movement: Julia had this gawky awkwardness, which Streep picks up.

I may as well say at once that I don't intend to take a pale, gawky girl about with me.

Word Value for gawky
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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