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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

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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