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gawkling

gawkling noun: one who is awkward or gawky.

Noun

gawkling (plural gawklings)

  1. (rare) One who is awkward or gawky
    • 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 …1968, A mass for the dead
    • 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.1988, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn

Forms of gawkling

pluralgawklings

Origin of gawkling

From gawk + -ling.

Questions about gawkling

What does gawkling mean?
Gawkling means one who is awkward or gawky.
What part of speech is gawkling?
Gawkling is a noun.
What is the plural of gawkling?
The plural of gawkling is gawklings.

Words near gawkling in the dictionary

  1. gawkinesses
  2. gawking
  3. gawkish
  4. gawkishly
  5. gawkishness
  6. gawkling
  7. gawklings
  8. gawks
  9. gawksome
  10. gawky
  11. Gawler

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