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Grammar : Verb
Spell : gawk
Phonetic Transcription : gɔk

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Définition of gawking

Origin :
  • 1785, American English, perhaps from gaw, a survival from Middle English gowen "to stare" (c.1200), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse ga "to heed," from Proto-Germanic *gawon-, from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (see favor (n.)); and altered perhaps by gawk hand (see gawky). Liberman writes that it "need not have been derived from gowk. It is possibly another independent imitative formation with the structure g-k. Related: Gawked; gawking.
  • verb stare at in amazement
Example sentences :
  • Gawking and gaping as though 'twere Christmas and Roman candles going off!
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • For fifteen years I have been the 'objective' of the gawking squad.
  • Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
  • He had gone about gawking in places he couldn't have had he been visible.
  • Extract from : « The Common Man » by Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
  • Here, you people, don't stand there gawking like a lot of dotty chumps!
  • Extract from : « Corporal Cameron » by Ralph Connor
  • "'Tend to your business, there; don't be gawking around," said the Orderly sternly.
  • Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) » by John McElroy
  • After closing the door behind him, he stepped to the piazza, and stopped on the edge of it, gawking around like a country lout.
  • Extract from : « Edith and John » by Franklin S. Farquhar
  • Like a flash the others followed him, and stood at attention just in his rear, gawking and peering in our direction.
  • Extract from : « Bamboo Tales » by Ira L. Reeves
  • I need to feel that way, acting foolish, gawking around here like some fool kid.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Then he was amazed at the shifting changes, the glory of its loneliness, and the utter absence of the curious and gawking.
  • Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney

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