Usually means: Awkwardly tall, clumsy, and ungraceful.
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  1. gawky: Merriam-Webster
  2. gawky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gawky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gawky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gawky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gawky, gawky: Wordnik
  7. gawky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gawky: Wiktionary
  9. gawky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gawky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gawky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gawky, gawky: Dictionary.com
  13. gawky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gawky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gawky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gawky: Rhymezone
  17. Gawky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gawky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. GAWKY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Gawky: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. gawky: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gawky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gawky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gawky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gawky: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gawky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gawkier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
adjective:  (Yorkshire, West Riding) Left-handed.
noun:  An awkward, ungainly person.

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