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单词 klutzy
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klutzyadj.

Brit. /ˈklʌtsi/, U.S. /ˈklətsi/
Forms: 1900s– clotzy, 1900s– clutsy, 1900s– clutzy, 1900s– klutzy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: klutz n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < klutz n. + -y suffix1. Compare later klutz v.It is unclear whether the same word is shown by the following earlier example of clutzy as an all-purpose word of vague meaning:1931 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 71/2 ‘I think that shirt looks pretty clutzy, don't you?’..Clutz..means anything you want it to.
colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).
Awkward or foolish; clumsy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1961 Chicago Sunday Tribune 31 Dec. viii. 4/1 Do you want to know how I showed them? I got tackier and tackier... Isn't that the klutziest thing you ever heard of?
1965 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 28 Aug. 51/2 The dancers look good and the artists look a little klutzy.
1970 New Yorker 17 Jan. 72 The sad, klutzy ballerinas of the Music Hall pollute children's first live experience of dance.
1975 Amer. Cinematographer Apr. 404/1 (caption) Peter Sellers in a repeat of his role as Inspector Clouseau, a klutzy French detective who..‘makes a wasteland out of everyplace he goes’.
2019 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Arts & Accents section) 1 f [His] teenage attempts to land jobs at local restaurants proved unsuccessful. ‘Nobody wanted to hire a klutzy 15-year-old.’

Derivatives

ˈklutziness n. clumsiness, awkwardness.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > clumsiness or awkwardness
bungerliness1598
lubberliness1598
indexterity1611
sinisterity1623
clumsiness1652
ungainness1727
ungainliness1755
awkwardnessa1770
maladroitness1781
ponderousness1801
lumberingness1869
gawkihood1872
gawkiness1873
klutziness1973
1973 Los Angeles Times 13 May (Calendar section) 32/3 You cared less about Coach and his aging boys this time out, but you laughed louder at their Archie Bunker politics and all-round klutziness.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Dec. 17/5 Tom, a grade-school boy of normal klutziness, spunk, bravado and pranks, solves the murder of a gorgeous but nasty blonde while riding a Pullman across the Prairies.
1985 New Yorker 25 Feb. 82/2 Coen's style is deadpan and klutzy, and he uses the klutziness as his trump card.
2015 C. J. Post Shattered Haven i. 9 She had outgrown her youthful klutziness. But she still didn't feel confident handling a weapon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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