awk — Dicionário de inglês

Adjetivo

1. Odd; out of order; perverse.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

   the awk end of hir charmed rod

3. Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

   Uso

   • uso britânico
   • dialectal
   • obsoleto

   Sinônimos

   unhandy

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (1)

   […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]

4. Awkward; uncomfortable.

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • gíria
   • of a situation

Advérbio

1. Perversely; in the wrong way.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

   Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.