Definition of awk

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Awk (a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end)..

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Hoddydoddy :: Hoddydoddy (n.) An awkward or foolish person.
Stonecrop :: Stonecray (n.) A distemper in hawks.
Mohawk :: Mohawk (n.) One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians..
Goody-goody :: Goody-goody (a.) Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
Hawked :: Hawked (imp. & p. p.) of Haw.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.
Hawk :: Hawk (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances..
Backworm :: Backworm (n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
Bait :: Bait (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey..
Unseel :: Unseel (v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten..
Fawkner :: Fawkner (n.) A falconer.
Loobily :: Loobily (adv.) Awkwardly.
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
Mawk :: Mawk (n.) A slattern; a mawks.
Rabate :: Rabate (v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk..
Brancher :: Brancher (n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.
Tomahawking :: Tomahawking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tomahaw.
Sternite :: Sternforemost (adv.) With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner..
Botcherly :: Botcherly (a.) Bungling; awkward.
Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop..
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