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Awkward

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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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Avesta
Aveugle
Avienus
A vinculo matrimonii (Latin)
Aviz
Avoid Etxremes
Avoir
Avoirdupois
A-weather
Awkward
Awkward Squad
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Ayeshah
Ayrshire Poet
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Azaziel
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