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gawk

[gawk] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used without object)

1.	to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.

–noun

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

]

—Synonyms 1. peer, ogle, gaze, goggle, rubberneck.

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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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gawk (v.)

1785, perhaps from M.E. gowen "to stare," from O.N. ga "to heed."

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gawk
noun
1.	an awkward stupid person [syn: lout]
verb
1.	look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle]

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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)