gawky

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An awkward, ungainly person.
    — "[…] Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child's party. Don't you remember the catastrophe, Ma'am, seven years ago?" "Over Mrs. Flamingo's crimson silk gown," said good-natured Mrs. Sedley. "What a gawky it was! And his sisters are not much more graceful. Lady Dobbin was at Highbury last night with three of them. Such figures! my dears."
形容词 adj.
  1. Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
    — The “gawky” illustrations look as though they may have been done by Belva Jean herself (Bulletin, Mar. 1989).
  2. Left-handed. Yorkshire

词形变化

gawkier comparative gawkiest superlative gawkies plural

词汇关系

近义词
gauche ungraceful
衍生词
gawkily gawkiness

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English gawk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gawky
From gawk + -y.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English gawk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gawky
From gawk + -y.
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