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Gawk
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Gawk has 1 sense
- gawk(n = noun.person) clod, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum - an awkward stupid person; Array is a kind of clumsy person
Derived form adjective gawky1
Verb Gawk has 1 sense
- gawk(v = verb.perception) gape, gawp, goggle - look with amazement; look stupidly; Array is one way to look
Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Gawk, n. [OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel. gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS. géac cuckoo, Sw. gök, Dan. giög].
- A cuckoo. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Gawk, v. i.
- To act like a gawky. [1913 Webster]
- To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; -- usually used with
at . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Gawk, v. & n.
--v.intr. colloq. stare stupidly.
--n. an awkward or bashful person.
--v.intr. colloq. stare stupidly.
--n. an awkward or bashful person.
Derivative
gawkish adj.
Etymology
rel. to obs. gaw gaze f. ON g{aacute} heed
THESAURUS
Gawk
ass, be amazed, be astonished, be curious, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, bore, botcher, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, burn with curiosity, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, crane, crane the neck, dig around for, dig up, dolt, dunderhead, dunderpate, eye, fool, fumbler, galoot, gape, gaup, gawky, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, glare, gloat, goggle, gowk, hayseed, hick, ignoramus, inquire, interrogate, klutz, lobster, looby, look, lout, lubber, lug, lummox, lump, marvel, ninny, nose around for, nose out, oaf, ogle, ox, palooka, peer, query, question, quiz, rubber, rubberneck, rube, seek, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, stand aghast, stand on tiptoe, stare, stare at, stare down, stare hard, stare openmouthed, want to know, wonder, yokelROGET THESAURUS
Gawk
Spectator
VB witness, behold, look on, gawk, rubber, rubberneck.Fool
N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.
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