awk

Etymology 1
From, from , , (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Akin to 🇨🇬. Compare dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  ; out of order; perverse.
 * , or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
 * 1)   in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
 * 2) * 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142
 * whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches
 * 1)  ; uncomfortable.
 * whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches
 * 1)  ; uncomfortable.

Adverb

 * 1)  Perversely; in the wrong way.

Etymology 2
From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors:, , and.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.