gawk

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  1. noun An awkward, loutish person; an oaf.
  2. intransitive verb To stare or gape stupidly. See Synonyms at gaze.

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  • Are you going to stand there and gawk, or are you going to send someone down to carry our trunks into the house? —  Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl
  • They would turn and they would gawk, pale eyebrows rising beneath the lank wheat colored hair. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • She thought about telling the men it was damned rude to gawk, but quickly changed her mind. —  Garwood, Julie - The Wedding
  • Applause and cheering builds in waves as wannabes flock to gawk, eager to get a piece of the lucky winners—a level of joy unbeknownst to Mankind since the Israelites scored manna from Heaven. —  FSF,September2006
  • How is this new world complected Don't gawk, Iris. —  Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - UC [.html].htm
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by gawk hand, left hand) of obsolete gaw, to gape, from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse gā, to heed.

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  1. Also gauk; a variant of gowk, gouk, a cuckoo, a fool (see gowk); from Middle English gowke, a cuckoo, hence (spelled goke) a fool, from Icelandic gaukr = Swedish gök = Danish gjög, a cuckoo, = Anglo-Saxon geác, a cuckoo (which gave Middle English ʒek, ʒeke, a cuckoo), = Old High German gouh, a cuckoo, Middle High German gouch, German gauch, a cuckoo, a fool, simpleton. A different word from cuckoo, but perhaps, like that, ult. of imitative origin. For the transition of sense from ‘cuckoo’ to ‘fool’ or ‘simpleton,’ cf. booby, gull, goose.
  2. from gawk, n.
 

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