- verbgawk (verb) · gawks (third person present) · gawked (past tense) · gawked (past participle) · gawking (present participle)
- stare openly and stupidly:"they were gawking at some pinup"
noungawk (noun) · gawks (plural noun)- an awkward or shy person:"let those country gawks dance to their hearts' content"
Originlate 17th century (as a noun): perhaps related to obsolete gaw ‘to gaze’, from Old Norse gá ‘heed’.
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- Gawk is a verb that means to stare or gape stupidly or rudely at something or someone12345. It can also be a noun that means an awkward or foolish person34. The word may be derived from an obsolete word gaw, meaning to gape, or from a dialectal word gawk, meaning left4. The word is informal and sometimes spelled as gawp in British English5.Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.to look at something or someone in a foolish way without thinking: Don’t stand there gawking at her, give her a hand! (Definition of gawk from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gawkgawked; gawking; gawks intransitive verb : to gape or stare stupidly gawked at the fish in the aquariumwww.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gawkverb (used without object) to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities. noun an awkward, foolish person.www.dictionary.com/browse/gawkgawk (gôk) intr.v. gawked, gawk·ing, gawks To stare or gape stupidly. See Synonyms at gaze. n. An awkward or clumsy person. [Perhaps alteration (influenced by gawk, awkward person) of obsolete gaw, to gape, from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse gā, to heed. N., probably from English dialectal gawk, left (as in gawk hand, left hand).]www.thefreedictionary.com/gawkinformal us / ɡɑːk / uk / ɡɔːk / (UK also gawp) Add to word list to look at something or someone in a stupid or rude way: Don't sit there gawking like that - give me a hand! gawk at They just stood there gawking at me.dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/gawk
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