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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Stannic :: Stannel (n.) The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall..
Peddling :: Peddling (a.) Hawking; acting as a peddler.
Hobbletehoy :: Hobbletehoy (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow ..
Cadge :: Cadge (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Peddle :: Peddle (v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware..
Awkly :: Awkly (adv.) Awkwardly.
Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..
Wooden :: Wooden (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
Gawk :: Gawk (n.) A cuckoo.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To hawk or peddle provisions.
Pawky :: Pawky (a.) Arch; cunning; sly.
Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..
Frill :: Frill (v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills..
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..
Excreate :: Excreate (v. t.) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
Wapacut :: Wapacut (n.) The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
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..
Mawky :: Mawky (a.) Maggoty.
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers..
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