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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(eastern Caribbean English, of a person or thing) Awkward; unattractive; out of place; lopsided; misshapen..
Look at me. Black as the Ace of Spades and ugly to match. . . . I catch sight of the obzocky black face in one of those fancy mirrors that these expensive hotels have all over the place, as if to spite people like me.
There's also something as well that describes some person who may not be ugly, may not be very ugly facially but there's something about them that's ungainly. They're not handsome, they're not um, they're .. let's say they're - they're awkward, they're awkward-looking and that's a word that I think is probably old-time English word as well but we say obzocky. Yes, that's the Bajan word, obzocky!
I no longer get an ounce of comfort from seeing those obzocky police vans that could pass for foreign ice cream trucks.
Use obzocky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obzocky means (eastern Caribbean English, of a person or thing) Awkward; unattractive; out of place; lopsided; misshapen..
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Look at me. Black as the Ace of Spades and ugly to match. . . . I catch sight of the obzocky black face in one of those fancy mirrors that these expensive hotels have all over the place, as if to spite people like me.
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