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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAWK'Y, a. Foolish; awkward; clumsy; clownish. [In this sense it is retained in vulgar use in America.]
GAWK'Y, n. A stupid, ignorant, awkward fellow.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (gawkier; -est) Date: 1759 awkward, clumsy <a gawky adolescent> • gawkily adverb • gawkiness noun • gawky noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (gawkier, gawkiest) awkward or ungainly. Derivatives: gawkily adv. gawkiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gawky Gawk"y, a. [Compar. Gawkier; superl. Gawkiest.] Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone, especially a young person, as gawky, you mean they are awkward and clumsy. ...a gawky lad with spots. = gangling ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Awkward, ungainly, clownish, boorish, rustic, clumsy, raw, green, uncouth, loutish. II. n. Clown, boor, booby, lout, bumpkin, gawk, awkward simpleton.

Moby Thesaurus

all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bony, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, fumbling, gangling, gangly, gauche, gaunt, gawkish, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, meager, oafish, ponderous, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, sloppy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, splay, stiff, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncouth, undersized, underweight, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy