awk /ɔːk/adjective 4adverb 1forms 2 adjective4 •(US, slang) Awkward; uncomfortable. •(dialect, no longer used) 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 […] — 1815 •(no longer used) Odd; out of order; perverse. •(no longer used) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.the awk end of hir charmed rod — 1567 adverb1 •(no longer used) Perversely; in the wrong way.Ill husbandry drowseth at fortune so awke, / good husbandry rowseth him selfe like a hawke. — 1570 formsmore awk · most awk
