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awkweird en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of awkward + weird.

Meanings

  1. (rare, slang) Awkward and weird.
    • Sure, Seneca 10s will probably feel stiffer than Jacks Canyon 10s but those are apples and orangutans. Old 8s and 9s can be plain old awkweird and hard, respectively. 2005 September 26, “Mad Dog”, “Re: My big day”, in rec.climbing (Usenet):
    • Nanny was buttockicized (& that the word is awkWEIRD and ungainly is no accident) because she was black & therefore how could she possibly be a leader […] a. 1994, Kamau Brathwaite, “Nanny, Palmares and the Caribbean Maroon Connexion”, quoted in Jeanne Christensen, “A Language of Myth”, chapter 5 of Annie Paul (editor), Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, University of the West Indies Press (2007), page 119
    • Maybe I'm playing the wrong games, or maybe it's because I've become so use^([sic]) to TADS that anything else seems 'awkweird'. 2001 August 19, “TheCycoONE”, “Re: Help the AIF community!”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):