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\Awk\ ([add]k), a. [OE. auk, awk (properly) turned away; (hence) contrary, wrong, from Icel. ["o]figr, ["o]fugr, afigr, turning the wrong way, fr. af off, away; cf. OHG. abuh, Skr. ap[=a]c turned away, fr. apa off, away + a root ak, a[u^]k, to bend, from which come also E. angle, anchor.] 1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.] 2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding. 3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
\Awk\, adv. Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.

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