[W/K] :: awk

  Awk \Awk\ ([add]k), a. [OE. auk, awk (properly) turned away;
     (hence) contrary, wrong, from Icel. ["o]figr, ["o]fugr,
     afigr, turning the wrong way, fr. af off, away; cf. OHG.
     abuh, Skr. ap[=a]c turned away, fr. apa off, away + a root
     ak, a[u^]k, to bend, from which come also E. angle, anchor.]
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     1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.]
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     2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk
        end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding.
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     3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous;
        awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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  Awk \Awk\, adv.
     Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
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  AWK
       al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)
       
       

  awk /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging
     text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan
     (the name derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like
     syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations,
     associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl.
     2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to manipulate through
     normal regexp facilities (for example, one containing a newline). 3.
     vt. To process data using `awk(1)'.
  
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  awk
       
          1.  (Named from the authors' initials) An
          interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for
          massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,
          and Brian Kernighan in 1978.  It is characterised by C-like
          syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and
          field-oriented text processing.
       
          There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients
          including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk.  Perl was inspired
          in part by awk but is much more powerful.
       
          Unix manual page: awk(1).
       
          netlib WWW
          (http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html).  netlib
          FTP (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/).
       
          ["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,
          P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].
       
          2.  An expression which is awkward to manipulate
          through normal regexp facilities, for example, one
          containing a newline.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (1995-10-06)