gowkn.

Brit.

/ɡaʊk/, U.S.

/ɡaʊk/, Scottish English

/ɡʌʊk/

Forms: Middle English–1500s gok(e, Middle English–1500s gowke, golk, (1500s Scottish goilk), 1500s–1700s gouke, 1500s–1800s gouk, (1600s, 1800s Scottish gook), 1600s– gowk.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse gaukr.

Etymology: < Old Norse gaukr = Old English géac (see yeke n.), Old High German gouh (Middle High German gouch, German gauch) < Old Germanic *gauko-z.

Originally Scottish and northern dialect.

1. The cuckoo.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Cuculus > cuculus canorus (cuckoo)

yekec725

cuckooc1240

gowkc1325

Welsh ambassador1608

Welsh ledger1608

suck-egg1851

c1325 Song 5 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 291 I ga gowlende a-bowte, al so so dos a goke [rhyme-word bok].

?a1400 Morte Arth. 927 Thare galede þe gowke one greuez fulle lowde.

1483 Cath. Angl. 161/2 A Goke (A. A Goke, A Gotoo), cuculus.

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The golk, the gormaw and the gled Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 821 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 120 The tuchet and ye gukkit golk.

1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. D3^v De cvcvlo..Anglicé a cukkouu, & a gouke.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 274/2 The Cuckow is in some parts of England called a Gouke.

1786 R. Burns Let. 20 Mar. (2001) I. 29 I hope, sometime before we hear the Gowk, to have the pleasure of seeing you at Kilm^k.

1841 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 253 The numbers of the cuckoo or gowk (Cuculus canorus) which visit us.

1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Gowk, the cuckoo.

2. A fool: a half-witted person. [So German gauch.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun]

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fopc1440

joppec1440

fonda1450

fondlinga1450

insipienta1513

plume of feathers1530

bobolynec1540

dizzard1546

Little Witham?1548

nodc1563

dawkin1565

cocknel1566

nigion1570

niddicock1577

nodcock1577

cuckoo1581

Jack with the feather1581

niddipol1582

noddyship?1589

stirkc1590

fonkin1591

Gibraltar1593

fopper1598

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coxcombry1600

simple1600

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Jack Adams1656

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nigmenog1699

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nincom1800

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slob1810

omadhaun1818

potwalloper1820

mosy1824

amadan1825

gump1825

gype1825

oonchook1825

prawn1845

suck-egg1851

goosey1852

nowmun1854

pelican1856

poppy-show1860

buggerlugs1861

damfool1881

mudhead1882

yob1886

peanut head1891

haggis bag1892

poop1893

gazob1906

mush1906

wump1908

zob1911

gorm1912

goof1916

goofus1916

gubbins1916

dumb cluck1922

twat1922

B.F.1925

goofer1925

bird brain1926

berk1929

Berkeley1929

Berkeley Hunt1929

ding1929

loogan1929

stupido1929

poop-stick1930

nelly1931

droop1932

diddy1933

slappy1937

goof ball1938

get1940

poon1940

tonk1941

clot1942

yuck1943

possum1945

gobdaw1947

momo1953

nig-nog1953

plonker1955

weenie1956

nong-nong1959

Berkshire Hunt1960

balloon1965

doofus1965

dork1965

nana1965

shit-for-brains1966

schmoll1967

tosspot1967

lunchbox1969

doof1971

tonto1973

dorkus1979

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

wally1980

wally brain1981

der-brain1983

langer1983

numpty1985

sotong1988

fanny1995

fannybaws2000

a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 23 Gowke, wyt mee not to gar thee greit; Thy tratling, truiker, I sall tame.

a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) lxx. 9 Art thou a god? No—bot a gok disguysit.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. i What ails thee, gowk! to mak sae loud ado?

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) I. 139 April Gouks.

1795 R. Burns Wham will we send to London Town iv A Lord may be a gowk, Wi' ribban, star, and a' that.

a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 21 The gowk's possest I ween.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xliv. 196 A gowk of an Englishman, who gained an audience under a mistaken notion.

1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 154 You gowk!

3. Phrases. to give the gowk to: to befool. to hunt the gowk: to go on a fool's errand.

ΚΠ

1728 A. Ramsay Mercury in Quest of Peace 81 Has Jove then sent me amang thir fowk, Cry'd Hermes, here to hunt the gowk?

?a1800 Sweet Willie xxi, in J. Finlay Sc. Hist. & Romantic Ballads (1808) II. 66 Ye hae gien me the gowk, Annet, But I'll gie you the scorn.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations esp. with genitive gowk's.

gowk's-errand n. = fool's errand n. at fool n.¹ and adj. Compounds 4b.

ΚΠ

1823 M. Corbett & M. Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 227 ‘Somebody’, continued Robin, ‘sent them on a gowk's errand, to look for smuggled whiskey in my house’.

gowk-meat n. (also gowk's-meat) (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 238 [Oxalis acetosella] Wood Sorrel. Anglis. Gouke-meat. Scotis.

1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 217 Gowk (or Gowks) Meat. 1. Orchis mascula and O. Morio. 2. Oxalis Acetosella.

gowk-oats n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gowk-oats, late sown oats. The season for sowing oats is usually during the month of March. When by chance the sowing is delayed till April they are gowk-oats.

gowk's-spittle n. = cuckoo-spit n.²

ΚΠ

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Gowk-spittles, a white frothy matter common on the leaves of plants, about the latter end of the summer and beginning of autumn.

1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 204 The slaver of gowk's-spittle.

gowk's-storm n. †(a) a storm of short duration; (b) a spring gale which occurs at the time of the cuckoo's arrival.

ΚΠ

1594 Huntly Let. to Earl Angus in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 225 [Huntly spoke of the king's rumoured campaign as likely to turn out a] ‘gowk's storm’.

a1691 G. Mackenzie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1821) 70 That being done he hop'd that this was but a gowk storm.

1849 W. Thompson Nat. Hist. Birds Irel. I. 357 The peasantry look forward with the greatest interest every spring for what they call the ‘Gowk (cuckoo) Storm’, that takes place about the end of April or the beginning of May, when the note of this bird is heard.

1899 H. C. Hart in Trans. Philol. Soc. 11 The portion shed from the plant and driven ashore by May storms, usually by that storm known as the ‘cuckoo storm’ or ‘gowk storm’.

gowk-like adj. foolish.

ΚΠ

1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iii. 234 Though Archy Keith might have done a very gowk-like thing when he joined their cloth [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	gowk
释义	gowkn. Brit. /ɡaʊk/, U.S. /ɡaʊk/, Scottish English /ɡʌʊk/ Forms: Middle English–1500s gok(e, Middle English–1500s gowke, golk, (1500s Scottish goilk), 1500s–1700s gouke, 1500s–1800s gouk, (1600s, 1800s Scottish gook), 1600s– gowk. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse gaukr. Etymology: < Old Norse gaukr = Old English géac (see yeke n.), Old High German gouh (Middle High German gouch, German gauch) < Old Germanic gauko-z. Originally Scottish* and northern dialect. 1. The cuckoo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Cuculus > cuculus canorus (cuckoo) yekec725 cuckooc1240 gowkc1325 Welsh ambassador1608 Welsh ledger1608 suck-egg1851 c1325 Song 5 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 291 I ga gowlende a-bowte, al so so dos a goke [rhyme-word bok]. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 927 Thare galede þe gowke one greuez fulle lowde. 1483 Cath. Angl. 161/2 A Goke (A. A Goke, A Gotoo), cuculus. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The golk, the gormaw and the gled Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 821 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 120 The tuchet and ye gukkit golk. 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. D3^v De cvcvlo..Anglicé a cukkouu, & a gouke. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 274/2 The Cuckow is in some parts of England called a Gouke. 1786 R. Burns Let. 20 Mar. (2001) I. 29 I hope, sometime before we hear the Gowk, to have the pleasure of seeing you at Kilm^k. 1841 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 253 The numbers of the cuckoo or gowk (Cuculus canorus) which visit us. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. Gowk, the cuckoo. 2. A fool: a half-witted person. [So German gauch.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] dizzyc825 cang?c1225 foolc1225 apec1330 mopc1330 saddle-goosec1346 mis-feelinga1382 foltc1390 mopec1390 fona1400 buffardc1430 fopc1440 joppec1440 fonda1450 fondlinga1450 insipienta1513 plume of feathers1530 bobolynec1540 dizzard1546 Little Witham?1548 nodc1563 dawkin1565 cocknel1566 nigion1570 niddicock1577 nodcock1577 cuckoo1581 Jack with the feather1581 niddipol1582 noddyship?1589 stirkc1590 fonkin1591 Gibraltar1593 fopper1598 noddypeak1598 coxcombry1600 simple1600 gowka1605 nup1607 fooliaminy1608 silly ass1608 dosser-head1612 dor1616 glow-worm1624 liripipea1625 doodle1629 sop1637 spalt1639 fool's head1650 buffle1655 Jack Adams1656 bufflehead1659 nincompoopc1668 bavian1678 nokes1679 foolanea1681 cod1699 hulver-head1699 nigmenog1699 single ten1699 mud1703 dowf1722 foolatum1740 silly billy1749 tommy noddy1774 arsec1785 nincom1800 silly1807 slob1810 omadhaun1818 potwalloper1820 mosy1824 amadan1825 gump1825 gype1825 oonchook1825 prawn1845 suck-egg1851 goosey1852 nowmun1854 pelican1856 poppy-show1860 buggerlugs1861 damfool1881 mudhead1882 yob1886 peanut head1891 haggis bag1892 poop1893 gazob1906 mush1906 wump1908 zob1911 gorm1912 goof1916 goofus1916 gubbins1916 dumb cluck1922 twat1922 B.F.1925 goofer1925 bird brain1926 berk1929 Berkeley1929 Berkeley Hunt1929 ding1929 loogan1929 stupido1929 poop-stick1930 nelly1931 droop1932 diddy1933 slappy1937 goof ball1938 get1940 poon1940 tonk1941 clot1942 yuck1943 possum1945 gobdaw1947 momo1953 nig-nog1953 plonker1955 weenie1956 nong-nong1959 Berkshire Hunt1960 balloon1965 doofus1965 dork1965 nana1965 shit-for-brains1966 schmoll1967 tosspot1967 lunchbox1969 doof1971 tonto1973 dorkus1979 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 wally1980 wally brain1981 der-brain1983 langer1983 numpty1985 sotong1988 fanny1995 fannybaws2000 a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 23 Gowke, wyt mee not to gar thee greit; Thy tratling, truiker, I sall tame. a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonnets (1887) lxx. 9 Art thou a god? No—bot a gok disguysit. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. i What ails thee, gowk! to mak sae loud ado? 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1849) I. 139 April Gouks. 1795 R. Burns Wham will we send to London Town iv A Lord may be a gowk, Wi' ribban, star, and a' that. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 21 The gowk's possest I ween. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xliv. 196 A gowk of an Englishman, who gained an audience under a mistaken notion. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 154 You gowk! 3. Phrases. to give the gowk to: to befool. to hunt the gowk: to go on a fool's errand. ΚΠ 1728 A. Ramsay Mercury in Quest of Peace 81 Has Jove then sent me amang thir fowk, Cry'd Hermes, here to hunt the gowk? ?a1800 Sweet Willie xxi, in J. Finlay Sc. Hist. & Romantic Ballads (1808) II. 66 Ye hae gien me the gowk, Annet, But I'll gie you the scorn. Compounds attributive and in other combinations esp. with genitive gowk's. gowk's-errand n. = fool's errand n. at fool n.¹ and adj. Compounds 4b. ΚΠ 1823 M. Corbett & M. Corbett Petticoat Tales I. 227 ‘Somebody’, continued Robin, ‘sent them on a gowk's errand, to look for smuggled whiskey in my house’. gowk-meat n. (also gowk's-meat) (see quots.). ΚΠ 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 238 [Oxalis acetosella] Wood Sorrel. Anglis. Gouke-meat. Scotis. 1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 217 Gowk (or Gowks) Meat. 1. Orchis mascula and O. Morio. 2. Oxalis Acetosella. gowk-oats n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gowk-oats, late sown oats. The season for sowing oats is usually during the month of March. When by chance the sowing is delayed till April they are gowk-oats. gowk's-spittle n. = cuckoo-spit n.² ΚΠ 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Gowk-spittles, a white frothy matter common on the leaves of plants, about the latter end of the summer and beginning of autumn. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 204 The slaver of gowk's-spittle. gowk's-storm n. †(a) a storm of short duration; (b) a spring gale which occurs at the time of the cuckoo's arrival. ΚΠ 1594 Huntly Let. to Earl Angus in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 225 [Huntly spoke of the king's rumoured campaign as likely to turn out a] ‘gowk's storm’. a1691 G. Mackenzie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1821) 70 That being done he hop'd that this was but a gowk storm. 1849 W. Thompson Nat. Hist. Birds Irel. I. 357 The peasantry look forward with the greatest interest every spring for what they call the ‘Gowk (cuckoo) Storm’, that takes place about the end of April or the beginning of May, when the note of this bird is heard. 1899 H. C. Hart in Trans. Philol. Soc. 11 The portion shed from the plant and driven ashore by May storms, usually by that storm known as the ‘cuckoo storm’ or ‘gowk storm’. gowk-like adj. foolish. ΚΠ 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iii. 234 Though Archy Keith might have done a very gowk-like thing when he joined their cloth [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). gowkv. Brit. /ɡaʊk/, U.S. /ɡoʊk/ Forms: Also 1500s gouk. Etymology: ? < gowk n.; but goukis in the first quot. may be a spelling of guckis : see guck v. rare. intransitive. To stare foolishly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 94 Sum goukis quhill the glas pyg grow full of gold ȝit. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 154 Bobby, Tou-Tou and I, having no one to..gowk amorously up at us, are sitting in a row in our pew. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325v.1513
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