Mawk

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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     1. A maggot. [Scot.]
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     2. A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  mawk
       
           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/{SYSV}R3; {DECStation}/{ULTRIX} 4.1,
          {MS-DOS}/{Turbo C++}.
       
          {(ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk)}.
       
          (2000-05-04)