Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mawk \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.]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

mawk
     
         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/{SYSV}R3; {DECStation}/{ULTRIX} 4.1,
        {MS-DOS}/{Turbo C++}.
     
        {(ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk)}.
     
        (2000-05-04)