aukward
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]aukward (comparative more aukward, superlative most aukward)
- Obsolete spelling of awkward.
- 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany[1], page 188:
- Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.
- 1747, R. Campbell, The London Tradesman[2], page 197:
- […] he ought, by no Means to be an aukward clumſey Fellow, ſuch a Creature would turn the Lady's Stomach in a Morning, when they go their Rounds, to tumble Silks they have no mind to buy.