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Meaning of MAWK

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mawk\, n. [OE. mauk, ma?ek, Icel. ma?kr; akin to Dan.
maddik, and E. mad an earthworm. See {Mad}, n.]
1. A maggot. [Scot.]

2. A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]

 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

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++.

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