Gawkling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gawkling is a noun meaning (rare) One who is awkward or gawky.
Meaning
(rare) One who is awkward or gawky.
Example Sentences
Under it are two snapshots of my sister, and one of a skinny gawkling dressed to the teeth, with a downward smile; and to this photo of him as suitor my mother added a news clipping no larger than my thumb …
He lacked the time to study the newspapers and read about himself, but Dora and Al clipped them for him. There remained enough of the adolescent gawkling in Roy to forbid the parents to come watch him in the courtroom.
Bright trees wave in wind and then drop one night all their leaves and thereafter are silent, revealing themselves as mere twigs strung together for a nest where a gawkling crept from a shell and was pushed, stumbled off its edge into space, and when spring pressed [...]
Word Forms
- gawklings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gawky, gawk, gawker, gangler, gawpus, gawby.
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