a.; also 7 ocwardish. [f. prec. + -ISH.] Rather awkward. (Colloquial.)

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, I. lvi. (1632), 185. He was so changed from himselfe, and become so ocwardish.

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1860.  Punch, 14 July, 19/2. We may be awkwardish at first.

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