awky

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English

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Etymology

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From awkward +‎ -y.

Adjective

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awky (comparative more awky, superlative most awky)

  1. (slang) Awkward.
    • 2011, Tim Winton, That Eye, the Sky:
      Funny, you know, I feel a bit awky with Fat just now. Can't tell if he's looking me in the face because my eyes are on the ground, but I bet he isn't.
    • 2013, P. D. Skelton, Renascence: A Story of Christianity in an Atheistic Future, page 42:
      She stood for a bit longer until it got awky for me, an' I finally did an eye thing at her, meanin' GO!