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Parrot's cry
Answer for the clue "Parrot's cry ", 3 letters:
awk
Alternative clues for the word awk
- Parrot's word, in comics
- Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one
- Polly's cry
- Teacher's comment that she maybe might write near sentences sort of like this current clue here
- "Polly wanna cracker?" response, maybe
- Polly's call
- Cry from Iago
Word definitions for awk in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
AWK is an interpreted programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. AWK or awk may also refer to: Adwick railway station in the National Rail code for the United Kingdom American Water (company) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "turned the wrong way," from Old Norse afugr "turned backwards, wrong, contrary," from Proto-Germanic *afug- , from PIE *apu-ko- , from root *apo- "off, away" (see apo- ). Obsolete since 17c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) odd; out of order; perverse. 2 (context obsolete English) wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, ''the awk end of a rod'' (the butt end). 3 (context obsolete UK dialect English) Clumsy in performance or manners; ...
Usage examples of awk.
Sea birds circled the ship all day long, so that they got used to the sight of fulmars and kittiwakes, awks, and mers: a plenitude of food if ever they were in short supply.
I run into Miss Dawn Astra in the street a couple of times, and she always asks me if the parrot says anything as yet, and when I tell her nothing but awk, it seems to make her quite happy, so I judge she figures that Ambrose is bound to get tired of listening to nothing but awk and will return to her.