gowk

• Dinna stand there, ye gowk, as fusionless as a docken, but tell me that! —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• "[15] In another story, a Durak_,--a "ninny" or "gowk"--is sent to take care of the children of a village during the absence of their parents. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• A feckless gowk was Watmough; he couldn't frame to do owt but play t' fiddle i' t' sky-parlour, or sit ower t' fire eatin' fat-shives Lizzie's daftness was not a serious matter; it consisted partly in a certain dreaminess, which brought a yonderly look into her eyes, and made her inattentive to what was going on around her, and partly in that habit of talking to herself which has already been referred to. —  Tales of the Ridings
• The Scotch employ the term "gowk" to express a fool in general, but more especially an April fool; and among them the practice which we have described is called "hunting the gowk Sometimes the First of April has been employed by persons wishing to perpetrate an extensive joke upon society. —  Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
• It was no more an essay than a twig is a tree, for the gowk had stuck in the middle of his second page. —  The Art of Public Speaking

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