Synonyms for gawks
| Grammar : Verb |
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| Phonetic Transcription : gɔk |
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Définition of gawks
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
- E 'ave noa will to help 'is father in these sorry times, but ever gawks at stage-plays. '
- Extract from : « One-Act Plays » by Various
- What fun is there in poking about this way like a couple of gawks?
- Extract from : « An Arkansas Planter » by Opie Percival Read
- None of them gawks standing around saw anything until you showed it to them.
- Extract from : « Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889 » by Various
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