mawk

2 definitions found

mawk - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mawk \Mawk\ (m[add]k), n. [OE. mauk, ma[eth]ek, Icel. ma[eth]kr;
     akin to Dan. maddik, and E. mad an earthworm. See Mad, n.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. A maggot. [Scot.]
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     2. A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]
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mawk - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  mawk
  
     <language, tool> An faster implementation of nawk written by
     Mike Brennan at Boeing in 1991 and distributed under GPL but
     distinct from GNU's gawk.
  
     Interpreter version 1.1.3 has been ported to Sun-3,
     Sun-4/SunOS 4.0.3; Vax/BSD 4.3, ULTRIX 4.1;
     Stardent 3000/SYSVR3; DECStation/ULTRIX 4.1,
     MS-DOS/Turbo C++.
  
     (ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk).
  
     (2000-05-04)