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awkweird

awkweird adjective: awkward and weird.

Adjective

awkweird

  1. (rare, slang) Awkward and weird.
    • Nanny was buttockicized (& that the word is awkWEIRD and ungainly is no accident) because she was black & therefore how could she possibly be a leader […]a. 1994, Kamau Brathwaite, “Nanny, Palmares and the Caribbean Maroon Connexion”, quoted in Jeanne Christensen, “A Language of Myth”, chapter 5 of Annie Paul (editor), Caribbean Culture: Soundings on...
    • Maybe I'm playing the wrong games, or maybe it's because I've become so use^([sic]) to TADS that anything else seems 'awkweird'.2001 August 19, “TheCycoONE”, “Re: Help the AIF community!”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet)

Origin of awkweird

Blend of awkward + weird.

Questions about awkweird

What does awkweird mean?
Awkweird means awkward and weird.
What part of speech is awkweird?
Awkweird is an adjective.

Words near awkweird in the dictionary

  1. awkwardly
  2. awkwardness
  3. awkwardnesses
  4. awkwardnessful
  5. awkwards
  6. awkweird
  7. awky
  8. awl
  9. awl-flies
  10. awl-fly
  11. awlbill

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