different between unhandy vs awk
unhandy
English
Etymology
un- +? handy
Adjective
unhandy (comparative unhandier, superlative unhandiest)
- Of a person, or movement: not handy, inept, clumsy, not dexterous.
- Awkward; not convenient.
Derived terms
- unhandiness
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awk
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k/
- (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /??k/
- Homophone: auk
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse ?fugr, ?figr, afigr (“turned backwards”) (whence Danish avet (“backwards”), Swedish avig (“turned backwards”)), from Proto-Germanic *abuhaz. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic ???????????????????? (ibuks, “turned back”). Akin to Sanskrit ????? (ap?c, “turned away”) . Compare dialectal Danish ave (“to turn”), Icelandic öfga (“to reverse”).
Adjective
awk (comparative more awk, superlative most awk)
- (obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
- (obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister
- the awk end of a rod (the butt end).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Golding to this entry?)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
- Synonym: unhandy
- 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142
- […] 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 […]
- (US slang, of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.
Derived terms
- awkly
- awkness
- awkward
Adverb
awk (comparative more awk, superlative most awk)
- (obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.
Etymology 2
From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.
Proper noun
awk
- (computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
- I used C, Perl, the Bourne shell, and some awk and tcl to implement these projects.
References
- awk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Kaw, Kwa, kaw
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