Origin: 1300–50; Middle English, equivalent to awk(e), auk(e) backhanded, Old English *afoc (< Old Norse ǫfugr turned the wrong way; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German abuh,Old English afu(h)lic wrong, off) + -ward-ward
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.