Definition von „awk“ auf Englisch

adjective

1. (obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.

2. (obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.

3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

   • […] 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. (US, slang, of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.

adverb

1. (obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.

name

1. Alternative letter-case form of AWK.