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gawk

  [gawk]
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–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)   
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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Word Origin & History

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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Computing Dictionary

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
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