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English
Etymology
Clipping of awkward + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Adjective
awks (comparative more awks, superlative most awks)
- (slang) Awkward.
- Synonym: awk
2024 September 23, Zoe Williams, “I bumped into Liz Truss at a school open day. It was super awks”, in The Guardian:We definitely did a panel on feminism together, maybe also a fringe event at a Tory conference. She [Liz Truss] probably wouldn’t remember those, but if she did, she would be able to make a fair summation of my feelings towards her, and that would be awkward – or, as the young people say, super awks.
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