French, gauche, not dexterous. Awk means the left hand. Hence in Holland’s Plutarch we have “The awke or left hand”; and again, “They receive her awkly when she presenteth … the right hand.” (See Sinister.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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