Definition of awk

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Awk (a.) Odd; out of order; perverse.

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Colporteur :: Colporteur (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books..
Scrawl :: Scrawl (v. t.) To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter..
Hawkey :: Hawkey (n.) See Hockey.
Gawky :: Gawky (superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk..
Gawk :: Gawk (n.) A cuckoo.
Looby :: Looby (n.) An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber..
Winkle-hawk :: Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
Rufterhood :: Rufterhood (n.) A kind of hood for a hawk.
Hawking :: Hawking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haw.
Gaucherie :: Gaucherie (n.) An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
Hawker :: Hawker (v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.
Beam :: Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
Shambling :: Shambling (n.) An awkward, irregular gait..
Mawkishly :: Mawkishly (adv.) In a mawkish way.
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers..
Mawkin :: Mawkin (n.) See Malkin, and Maukin..
Scamble :: Scamble (v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble..
Bungle :: Bungle (v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
Eyasmusket :: Eyasmusket (n.) An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk.
Dorhawk :: Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
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