The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awk \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.]
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   1. Odd; out of order; perverse. [Obs.]
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   2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk
      end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] --Golding.
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   3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous;
      awkward. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awk \Awk\, adv.
   Perversely; in the wrong way. --L'Estrange.
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V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

AWK
       al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

awk
 /awk/

    1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data
    developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name
    derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like syntax, a
    declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative
    arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl.

    2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to manipulate through normal 
    regexp facilities (for example, one containing a newline).

    3. vt. To process data using awk(1).

    B


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

awk

   1.  (Named from the authors' initials) An
   interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for
   massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,
   and Brian Kernighan in 1978.  It is characterised by C-like
   syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and
   field-oriented text processing.

   There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients
   including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk.  Perl was inspired
   in part by awk but is much more powerful.

   Unix manual page: awk(1).

   netlib WWW
   (http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html).  netlib
   FTP (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/).

   ["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan,
   P. Weinberger, A-W 1988].

   2.  An expression which is awkward to manipulate
   through normal regexp facilities, for example, one
   containing a newline.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-10-06)