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Brewer's: Awkward
French, gauche, not dexterous. Awk means the left hand. Hence in Holland's Plutarch we have “The awke or left hand”; and again, “They receive her awkly when she presenteth ... the right hand.” (See Sinister.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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