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gawk
[gawk] Pronunciation Key
[gawk] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object)
–noun
| 1. | to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities. |
| 2. | an awkward, foolish person. |
[Origin: 1775–85; appar. repr. OE word meaning fool, equiv. to ga(gol) foolish + -oc -ock; used attributively in gawk hand, gallock hand left hand
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] —Synonyms 1. peer, ogle, gaze, goggle, rubberneck.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| gawk
(gôk) Pronunciation Key
n. An awkward, loutish person; an oaf. intr.v. gawked, gawk·ing, gawks To stare or gape stupidly. See Synonyms at gaze. [Perhaps alteration (influenced by gawk hand, left hand) of obsolete gaw, to gape, from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse gā, to heed.] gawk'er n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
gawk (v.)
gawk (v.)
1785, perhaps from M.E. gowen "to stare," from O.N. ga "to heed."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| gawk | |
noun | |
| 1. | an awkward stupid person [syn: lout] |
verb | |
| 1. | look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
gawk tool, language
GNU awk. Gawk is a superset of standard awk and includes some Plan 9 features.
David Trueman and Arnold Robbins of Georgia Institute of Technology were developing it in 1993. It has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Archimedes.
Latest version: 2.15.3, as of 1993-11-08.
Available by FTP from your nearest GNU archive site.
Mac version.
(2000-10-21)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Gawk
Gawk\, 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]1. A cuckoo. --Johnson. 2. A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. --Carlyle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Gawk
Gawk\, v. i. To act like a gawky.
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