Replying to my own message: I found a point for improvement.
Why use grep when awk can grep by itself?
% wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf("%s %s\n", $4, gsub("noun", "n.", $3)); }'
Ah, much better. :-)
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Polytropon
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