英语词汇“gawky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

gawky

/ˈɡɔːki

adjective (gawkier, gawkiest)

Nervously awkward and ungainly: a gawky teenager...

I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth.
I just wanted to be like everyone else: one of the short girls who was good at doing cartwheels, graceful and cute as a kitten as opposed to a huge gawky awkward giraffe such as myself.
Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium.

Synonyms

awkward, ungainly, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, maladroit, inept, bumbling, blundering, lumbering;

socially awkward, socially unsure, unpolished, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, unworldly;

nervous, shy, bashful;

British nervy

Derivatives

gawkily

adverb ...

Everybody had the impression that he molded her out of clay, although when you see her on a screen it seems impossible she was ever any different from how she is now: gawkily girlish, charmingly direct, unemphatically shrewd.
Snapping out of my stupor, I quickly turned around (hiding my by-now tomato-like face) and jammed the keys gawkily into the keyhole.
However, Meg approached him, and gave him a big hug, while Ryan shuffled his feet gawkily, staring at them from outside his shoes.

gawkiness

noun ...

In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.
They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them.
My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears.

单词	gawky
释义	gawky /ˈɡɔːki / adjective (gawkier, gawkiest) Nervously awkward and ungainly: a gawky teenager... I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth. I just wanted to be like everyone else: one of the short girls who was good at doing cartwheels, graceful and cute as a kitten as opposed to a huge gawky awkward giraffe such as myself. Kids are gawky and awkward enough in junior high without forcing them to wear skinny ties and ill-fitting jackets while roaming like bison through a cramped gymnasium. Synonyms awkward, ungainly, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, maladroit, inept, bumbling, blundering, lumbering; socially awkward, socially unsure, unpolished, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, unworldly; nervous, shy, bashful; British nervy Derivatives gawkily adverb ... Everybody had the impression that he molded her out of clay, although when you see her on a screen it seems impossible she was ever any different from how she is now: gawkily girlish, charmingly direct, unemphatically shrewd. Snapping out of my stupor, I quickly turned around (hiding my by-now tomato-like face) and jammed the keys gawkily into the keyhole. However, Meg approached him, and gave him a big hug, while Ryan shuffled his feet gawkily, staring at them from outside his shoes. gawkiness noun ... In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless. They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them. My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears. Rhymes balky, chalky, corky, Gorky, Milwaukee, pawky, porky, talkie, walkie-talkie
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gawky

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gawkily

gawkiness

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