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clumsy

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  • Regno Unito//ˈklʌmzi//

Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.

aggettivo

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    Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.

    He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.

  2. 2

    Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.

    It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.

    What a clumsy joke

    The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]

  3. 3

    Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.

Etimologia

Possibly from an alteration of clumsed (“benumbed”) or from clumse (“a stupid fellow; lout”) + -y. More at clumse.

sostantivo

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    informaleA clumsy person.

    On the stairs he met Ellen, the housemaid, and as he passed her he knocked the hot-water jug out of her hand. “Well, you are a clumsy,” said Ellen, as she bent down to mop up the water.

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