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Gawk   Listen
verb
Gawk  v. i.  
1.
To act like a gawky.
2.
To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; usually used with at.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Gawk" Quotes from Famous Books



... room brushing and curling my hair, and was ready to curtsey to everybody. Now I'm quite at home, for I've plenty of courage—except about death, and I'm worse about death than I was when I was a simple body with a gawk's "lawks!" in her round eyes and mouth for an egg. I wonder why that is? But isn't death horrible? And skeletons!' The ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... her son, a tall gawk of a boy, "I want you to go to Mr. Abner Balberry's house, and ask him if he will stop in and see me the first time he ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... was my eagerness to learn from books, that I had given no thought to people. Madison, my first town, showed me that my clothes were homemade and tacky. Other girls wore store shoes and what seemed to me beautifully made dresses. I was a backwoods gawk. I hated ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown


Words linked to "Gawk" :   lout, gawky, stumblebum, lubber, look, clod, gawp, goggle, oaf, gape, lummox, lump, clumsy person, goon


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