awk
/ɔːk
/(also awks /ɔːks/)
adjective informal
(Of a situation) causing uneasy embarrassment; awkward or uncomfortable: next Sunday’s dinner is going to be a little awk I sent that text complaining about work to my boss instead of my boyfriend—awks the awks encounter with her ex...
- The friend replied "What if he wants you, won't that get awk?"
- Either way, it's pretty awk.
- Okay, this is getting awk.
Origin
Early 21st century: abbreviation of awkward.
- mixotrophy
- mix something up
- mixtape
- mixte
- Mixtec
- Mixteca
- mixtil
- mixtilinear
- mixtion
- mixtry
- the Elder
- the elephant in the room
- the eleventh hour
- the Elysian Fields
- the emperor has no clothes
- the emperor's new clothes
- the end justifies the means
- the end of one's tether
- the end of one's tether (or rope)
- the end of the line
- the end of the road
- the end of the road (or line)
- the end of the world
- the Enlightenment
- the Entente Cordiale