gawk

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɔːk/
• (cot-caught, Canada) IPA: /ɡɑk/

Noun

gawk (plural gawks)

1. A cuckoo.
2. 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_of_Prussia,_Princess_of_Orange recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Frederick William II of Prussia afterwards.

Verb

gawk (gawks, present participle gawking; past and past participle gawked)

1. To stare or gape stupidly.
2. To stare conspicuously.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:stare

Translations

• Russian: тара́щиться

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