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Answer for the clue "Stare openly ", 4 letters:
gawk

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Tourists walked around gawking at the people in traditional costumes. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Despite the excellent snow, I spent at least half my time on each run standing still, gawking at the view. ▪ Do women want to ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a cuckoo 2 a fool Etymology 2 n. a simpleton, stupid or clumsy person. Etymology 3 vb. 1 To stare or gape stupidly 2 To stare conspicuously.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gawk or gawking may refer to: gawk (GNU package) , the GNU implementation of the AWK programming language Rubbernecking , openly staring at someone or something, look steadily, gaze.

Usage examples of gawk.

Madame Alp and, so as not to be ogled for free by the gathered gawks, went to wait in the tent wagon, where she could be company for Magpie Maggie Hag, still enfeebled by her premonitions or whatever was ailing her.

He was an Argon, that much she knew from the frenzied whisperings and gawking of the tavern wenches around her.

This resulted in a complete lack of movement on the part of the soldier, who gawked at the biped in utter helplessness.

That part of his mind which sometimes spoke to him in dry detachment told him that his fears were probably groundless and that his gawking made him appear to be a doltish country bumpkin.

Usually it was the stars who had to ignore unwanted gawking by the public while they were eating, but now a large number of the glitterati were eyeing Jenny and, incidentally, J.

It made Goofer gawk, wondering how the Lone Tiger could know so much about The Shadow.

Waiting their turn at the arches, Janney could only gawk at the statues rising out of the pool like eerie specters in the swirling mist.

As a partially paralyzed Walker looked on, the creature administering the ophthalmological treatment to its ocularly challenged companion noticed the astounded simian gawking at them from the confines of its small, flexible sanctuary.

Neil Michaels moved through the crowds of soldiers and sailors and gawking civilians like a halfback evading tacklers and heading downfield.

Their friends began to stretch and gawk at me and the noisy lunchroom rang with whoops of laughter aimed in my direction.

He had arrived in the last car from Earth, whose hundred other passengers were milling about in Gate Hall, listening to the advice of the guardsmen or gawking at the scale of it.

But the bardling kept a tight hold on the reins, trying to see everything without making it look like he was gawking.

The two girls had already wandered into the sitting room and were gawking about ration-book kids in an overstocked candy store.

Corby moved outward through the body-window and touched each of the gawking tribesfolk deep in the brain, sparking the pineal gland and the olfactory nerve-lobes with kha.

It looked as if every man, woman, and especially child that could possibly get to the showboat was standing out there, gawking.