Meaning of gawkling | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is awkward or gawky

rare

Examples

“Under it are two snapshots of my sister, and one of a skinny gawkling dressed to the teeth, with a downward smile⟳; and to this photo of him as suitor my mother added a news clipping no larger than my thumb …”

“He lacked the time to study⟳ the newspapers and read⟳ about himself, but Dora and Al clipped them for him. There remained enough of the adolescent gawkling in Roy to forbid⟳ the parents to come⟳ watch⟳ him in the courtroom.”

“Bright trees wave⟳ in wind and then drop one night all their leaves and thereafter are silent, revealing themselves as mere twigs strung together for a nest where a gawkling crept from a shell and was pushed, stumbled off its edge into space, and when spring⟳ pressed [...]”

CEFR level