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[ gawk ] SHOW IPA
/ gɔk / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object) to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
noun an awkward, foolish person.
Origin of gawk 1775–85; apparently representing OE word meaning fool, equivalent to ga(gol) foolish + -oc -ock; used attributively in gawk hand, gallock hand left hand
SYNONYMS FOR gawk 1 peer, ogle, gaze, goggle, rubberneck.
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Words nearby gawk Gävle, gavotte, gaw, Gawain, Gawain, Sir, gawk , gawky, gawp, Gawra, gawsy, gay
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Example sentences from the Web for gawk It would definitely be wrong for TLC to encourage us to gawk at these men but their story is worth investigating nonetheless.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen| January 1, 2015| DAILY BEAST
More than 50,000 cars passed along Quiet Dell Road so people could gawk .
Murder, She Wrote: Jayne Anne Phillips on Her New Novel | Jane Ciabattari| October 21, 2013| DAILY BEAST
GAWK at the unparalleled treasures of the State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace.
How to Play Hooky at the G20 Summit: A Guide to St. Petersburg | Nina Strochlic| September 4, 2013| DAILY BEAST
Rather than be instructional or cautionary, the show turns its subjects into feasting zoo objects for audiences to gawk at.
‘The Man With the 132 Lb. Scrotum’: TLC’s Lowest Show Yet? | Kevin Fallon| August 1, 2013| DAILY BEAST
Of those snapping pictures, almost all were locals who had paused to gawk at the strange sight.
Tourists in New York Flock to See Damage Wrought by Sandy | Nina Strochlic| November 2, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Bridget may have been a gawk , but she did two things which were not gawk ish.
It did not take Sigurd thirty seconds to drive that gawk from cover.
Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road | Katharine Lee Bates
The State is a mirage which the citizen is made to gawk at in the air, thinking he sees something besides the frowning German sky.
In the library and parlor, he confesses he is as a gawk or one dumb.
I murmured like a gawk that I was at her service, and presently as I shifted from one foot to the other she turned slowly.
A Daughter of Raasay | William MacLeod Raine
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British Dictionary definitions for gawk noun a clumsy stupid person; lout
verb (intr) to stare in a stupid way; gape
Word Origin for gawk C18: from Old Danish gaukr; probably related to gape
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to gawk glare, gape, ogle, rubberneck, look, goggle, yawp, gaze, gloat, peer, bore, eyeball