Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To gawk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gape; yawn.
  • To stare with the mouth open in a stupid and dazed manner. [U. S.]
  • To devour; eat greedily; swallow voraciously.

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  • verb UK To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb look with amazement; look stupidly

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of obsolete galp, to gawk, gape, of unknown origin.]

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Variation of gape.

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  • You would see her in a life class

         cross-hatching aimlessly

    gawping not at the model but

         at John and his charcoal 6B.

    - Peter Reading, Ballad, from The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery, 1976

    June 23, 2008