awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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(noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
(noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
(noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
(noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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gawk | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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gawker | (noun) a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness | - |
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gawkiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: ungainliness |
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goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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hawk | (noun) diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail | - |
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(noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: mortarboard |
(noun) an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations | Synonyms: war hawk |
hawkbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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hawker | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: falconer |
hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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hawksbill | (noun) pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell | Synonyms: Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle |
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hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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hawkweed | (noun) any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Pilosella | - |
mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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(noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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(noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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(noun) the noise of squawking | - |
squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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(noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
tomahawk | (noun) weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians | Synonyms: hatchet |
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