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Aukward
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aukward
aukward
English
Adjective
aukward (comparative more aukward, superlative most aukward)
- Obsolete spelling of awkward
- 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, 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.
- 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, page 188: