obzocky

comparative more obzocky · superlative most obzocky

1. CaribbeanEasternEnglishAwkward; unattractive; out of place; lopsided; misshapen.

   I no longer get an ounce of comfort from seeing those obzocky police vans that could pass for foreign ice cream trucks.

   2004 December 24, Debbie Jacob, “My wishes for 2005”, in Trinidad Guardian online, retrieved 25 Mar 2008

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   Look at me. Black as the Ace of Spades and ugly to match. . . . I catch sight of the obzocky black face in one of those fancy mirrors that these expensive hotels have all over the place, as if to spite people like me.

   1964, V. S. Naipaul, "The Baker's Story" in The Kenyon Review, vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer), p. 470

   There's also something as well that describes some person who may not be ugly, may not be very ugly facially but there's something about them that's ungainly. They're not handsome, they're not um, they're .. let's say they're - they're awkward, they're awkward-looking and that's a word that I think is probably old-time English word as well but we say obzocky. Yes, that's the Bajan word, obzocky!

   2004, "Jeffrey Hinds comes up with a Barbadian word to describe someone who's unattractive," Voices at www.bbc.co.uk (retrieved 25 Mar 2008)