GAWKY
ADJECTIVES
1808 — GAMALEERIE of clumsy build, tall, raw-boned, lean, and long-necked; hence, awkward, gawky Sc. obs.
1905 — QUAWING clumsy, awkward, gawky → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — GAWKWARD gawky → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1540 — HOBBLEDEHOY a young lad between fourteen and twenty-one, neither man nor boy; a clumsy, awkward, or gawky youth
1553 — GANDER a dull or stupid person; a fool, a simpleton; a gawky person
1790 — AWPS a stupid, clumsy, gawky person → Eng. dial.
1816 — FLISKMAHOY a giddy, ostentatious person; a flighty girl; a giddy, gawky girl; a woman who gives herself airs → Sc.
1825 — TAISTREL a gawky, slovenly, or unmethodical person; often applied to a girl who tears her clothes from carelessness → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1869 — HAUPS a tall, awkward or gawky person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1883 — MORTHER a gawky girl → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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