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Word: Clumsy
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 16th century: from obsolete clumse ‘make or be numb’, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish klumsig
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈklʌmzi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
awkward in movement or in handling things
Short Definition:awkward in movement
Examples:- the cold made his fingers clumsy
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