Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Turned in the opposite direction; directed the wrong way; backhanded: as, “an awk stroke,” Palsgrave.
- Left; left-handed.
- Wrong; erroneous; perverse: as, the awk end of a rod.
- Awkward to use; clumsy: as, an awk tool.
- Strange; singular; distinguished.
- Awkwardly; wrongly.
- n. See auk.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Odd; out of order; perverse.
- adj. obsolete Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the butt end).
- adj. obsolete Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
- adv. obsolete Perversely; in the wrong way.
- n. computing A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
- n. computing A Unix script written in the awk language.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- From Old Norse ǫfugr/ǫfigr/afigr ("turned backwards") ( > Danish avet ("backwards"), Swedish avig ("turned backwards")), from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (ibuks, "turned back"). Akin to Sanskrit अपाच् (apāc, "turned away") . Compare dialect Danish ave ("to turn"), Icelandic öfga ("to reverse"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When I run this bash script that calls awk, all the output is on a single line.”
“If we don't want to use awk, which is a whole-blown programming language, then we can sort the output of cat and filter it via uniq:”
“Yes, an 'yit Hugh's throwed him fair jest by main strength an' awk'ardness.”
“I was not familiar with that algorithm before, although I know the name Aho to be the 'a' in the famous "awk" Unix utility (Weinberg and Kernighan, also of great Unix fame are the 'w' and 'k').”
“: Create new display filter (1) • Introducing 'awk' • awk processes its input line by line • fields within one line are available with $1, $2 etc • standard field separator is \ "whitespace\" • C like printf function available • Goal: 192.168.1.30 3981 192.168.1.30 3982 to”
“Are my greps all wrong? or maybe I need to use an "awk" ... still learning thx”
“It’s also kind of awkward when I occasionally spot the couple in my travels around Minneapolis, given the nature of the material.”
“So, with these things in mind, OS X is UNIX (which means bash, find, grep, xargs, awk, sed etc is there with all its power), Spotlight (also available in the terminal with mdfind command) and Expose is still way ahead of Windows.”
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia
“RAM: top - l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/{print "Used:" $8 "\n Free:" $10}”
“Obviously, this doesn't change any of the internal contents in the files, but for text-based files, that is just a ` sed `, perl, awk, your-text-processing-tool-of-choice ... away.”
How To Move Your Home Folder To Another Drive | Lifehacker Australia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘awk’.
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Programming Languages
The last time someone tried this theme, it was a closed list with only two words; time to make amends. Scripting languages, etc. are also fair game...
c, c++, java, pascal, delphi, python, perl, lisp, algol, cobol, ada, apl and 121 more...
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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Found Poetry
Sometimes there are definitions from the Century Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, and Wiktionary which would make lovely found poems. This is a list of words which seem to have lyrical or ...
remote, diurnally, thence, anthesis, lew, interlock, fremd, pluck, commit, meddle, cant, cloud-built and 17 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Kapow! (I'm Batman)
Sound effects from the show. Swiped from here: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas_cantidad.htm
aieee, aiieee, awk, awkkkkkk, bam, bang, bang-eth, bap, biff, bloop, blurp, boff and 69 more...
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techish words
π, cohomology, hyperoctahedral, homotopy, homeomorphism, diffeomorphism, functor, tarball, ping, awk, sudo, cron and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for awk.
deinonychus Being left-handed, I find these "synonyms" a bit insulting. (But I guess singular and distinguished are nice...) Oct 4, 2012
ruzuzu Turned in the opposite
direction; directed
the wrong way; backhanded:
as, “an awk stroke,” Palsgrave.
Left; left-handed.
Wrong; erroneous;
perverse: as,
the awk end of a rod.
Awkward to use; clumsy:
as, an awk tool.
Strange; singular;
distinguished.
Awkwardly; wrongly.
See auk.
--Cent. Dict. Oct 4, 2012
frogapplause I don’t know if I’ve already mentioned this, but my uncle is living with us now. He tagged along with my parents to visit me a couple days ago and it was so awk. I don’t know why it doesn’t bother me that I have little to no desire to know my extended family. ~Unknown
I didn't realize that awk stood on its own. I thought it was lazy English, which prompted me to play with this nonsensical variation: "He tagged along with my parents to visit me a couple days ago and it was so razor-billed auk."
Oct 4, 2012