Crossword clues for gawk
gawk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gawk \Gawk\ (g[add]k), n. [OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel. gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS. g['e]ac cuckoo, Sw. g["o]k, Dan. gi["o]g]
A cuckoo.
--Johnson.A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.
--Carlyle.
Gawk \Gawk\, v. i.
To act like a gawky.
To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; -- usually used with at.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1785, American English, perhaps from gaw, a survival from Middle English gowen "to stare" (c.1200), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse ga "to heed," from Proto-Germanic *gawon-, from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (see favor (n.)); and altered perhaps by gawk hand (see gawky). Liberman writes that it "need not have been derived from gowk. It is possibly another independent imitative formation with the structure g-k. Related: Gawked; gawking.
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.
WordNet
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.