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Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one
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awk
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Word definitions for awk in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awk \Awk\, adv. Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. It is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems . The AWK language is a data-driven scripting language consisting of a set ...
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.