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gawd
English
Noun
gawd
- Pronunciation spelling of god.
Anagrams
- DAWG, dawg
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gawk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -??k
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??k/
Etymology 1
From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ??ac. More at yeke.
Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
Noun
gawk (plural gawks)
- A cuckoo.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
- 1855 Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review
- A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
- 1855 Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) +? -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).
Verb
gawk (third-person singular simple present gawks, present participle gawking, simple past and past participle gawked)
- To stare or gape stupidly.
- To stare conspicuously.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare
Derived terms
- gawker
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