What's the difference between gawky and mawky?

Gawky


Definition:

  • (superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
  • (2) But the gawky Furth, who specialised in nervous, oddball characters, began to get lots of work on television at the beginning of the 60s, something which continued into the 90s.
  • (3) One thing you'll soon realise is that this new generation of superstar YouTubers are not just gawky kids sitting in their bedrooms with a webcam.
  • (4) He’s not really gawky, although he will laugh his way through anything.
  • (5) Core team Groomed, drilled and polished by a team of advisers, including former TV producer Thea Rogers, the chancellor has replaced the squeaky-voiced gawkiness of his early days in the job with a carefully constructed image.
  • (6) He has all of Maguire's innate intelligence and endearing gawky awkwardness, as well as one crucial advantage over his predecessor – as a former gymnast, Garfield can do his own backflips.
  • (7) What delights the women most is anyone with a “past”, and when this gawky, evangelical new girl confesses that she “thinks” she is married, but isn’t quite sure, they draw closer and hold their breath.
  • (8) The good news is that she dances far better than that gawky teen shuffle of "Joe le Taxi"; the bad news is that… well, there's no bad news.
  • (9) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
  • (10) Then in 1968 he met Gates, another gawky kid who was also spending all his free time hunched over the school's first computer, an ASR-33 Teletype model .
  • (11) He is joined at the podium by director Danny Boyle; by gawky Dev Patel, preening Freida Pinto and by the pint-sized child actors flown out from Mumbai to attend the event.

Mawky


Definition:

  • (a.) Maggoty.

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