aukward

comparative more aukward · superlative most aukward

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of awkward.

   […] he ought, by no Means to be an aukward clumſey Fellow, ſuch a Creature would turn the Lady's Stomach in a Morning, when they go their Rounds, to tumble Silks they have no mind to buy.

   1747, R. Campbell, The London Tradesman, page 197

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   Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.

   1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, page 188