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

Clumsy; awkward.

A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.

Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.

A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Ca…

Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.

A clump of trees in a prairie. [Local, U.S.]

One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color.

To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. [Colloq.]

Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy. [Prov. Eng.]

ping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.