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Editorial marking
Answer for the clue "Editorial marking ", 3 letters:
awk
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Word definitions for awk in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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, ...
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; ...
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.
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.