awks
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of awkward + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Adjective
[edit]awks (comparative more awks, superlative most awks)
- (slang) Awkward.
- Synonym: awk
- 2024 September 23, Zoe Williams, “I bumped into Liz Truss at a school open day. It was super awks”, in The Guardian[1]:
- We definitely did a panel on feminism together, maybe also a fringe event at a Tory conference. She [Liz Truss] probably wouldn’t remember those, but if she did, she would be able to make a fair summation of my feelings towards her, and that would be awkward – or, as the young people say, super awks.
Further reading
[edit]- “awks adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present