awk
/ɔːk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative letter-case form of AWK.
intj
Alternative spelling of och.
name
A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.
Example Sentences
- "the awk end of hir charmed rod"
- "[…] 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 […]"
- "Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke."
- "One thing awk is good for is picking out and possibly rearranging columns within command output."
- "Must have exp w/ shell, incl Bash, & command line text processing incl grep, awk, & sed."
- "I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some AWK and Tcl to implement these projects."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂époh₃kʷos Proto-Germanic *abuhaz Old Norse ǫfugrder. Middle English awke English awk From Middle English awke, from Old Norse ǫfugr, ǫfigr, afigr (“turned backwards”) (whence Danish avet (“backwards”), Swedish avig (“turned backwards”)), from Proto-Germanic *abuhaz. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (ibuks, “turned back”). Akin to Sanskrit अपाच् (apāc, “turned away”). Compare dialectal Danish ave (“to turn”), Dutch averechts (“opposite, backwards, contrary”), Icelandic öfga (“to reverse”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: awke, ǫfugr, *abuhaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔːk/
- British English: /ɔːk/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more awk (comparative)
most awk (superlative)