Odd; out of order; perverse.

Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister

"the awk end of a rod (the butt end)."

Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.

(of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.

Perversely; in the wrong way.

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."