- gawk-handed
- Cleveland Dialect Listleft-handed, clumsy
English dialects glossary. 2013.
gawk-handed
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gawk — [go:k US go:k] v [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from gawk [i] left, left handed (18 19 centuries)] informal to look at something for a long time, in a way that looks stupid = ↑stare gawk at ▪ Don t just stand there gawking at those girls! … Dictionary of contemporary English
gawk — I. noun Etymology: probably from English dialect gawk left handed Date: 1757 a clumsy stupid person ; lout II. intransitive verb Etymology: perhaps alteration of obsolete gaw to stare Date: 1785 to gape or stare stupidly • gawker … New Collegiate Dictionary
gawk — I Australian Slang 1. stare openly; 2. stare stupidly II Everyday English Slang in Ireland v stare v to throw up especially after alcohol III Irish Slang stare IV Yorkshire Dialect Left handed V … English dialects glossary
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cloddish — adj awkward, clumsy, inept, maladroit, heavy handed, blundering, bungling, gawky or gawk ish, like a bull in a china shop, Inf. butterfingered, Sl. klutzy; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish, lumpen, clod hopping, clownish, lubberly; obtuse,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
lubberly — adj awkward, clumsy, inept, maladroit, heavy handed, blundering, bungling, gawky or gawk ish, ungainly, like a bull in a china shop, Inf. butter fingered, Sl. klutzy; loutish, oafish, doltish, lumpish, lumpen, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
