The first uses of the word are in the middle 14th century (1300s). Evidence of this is “Oxford says “awkward” meant “in the wrong direction, in the wrong way,” when it appeared for the first time in the Middle English poem Pricke of Conscience
The first uses of the word are in the middle 14th century (1300s). Evidence of this is “Oxford says “awkward” meant “in the wrong direction, in the wrong way,” when it appeared for the first time in the Middle English poem Pricke of Conscience