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Meanings of gawk in English

Portuguese
bobo
Catalan
terròs
Spanish
idiota

An awkward stupid person.

      bobo
      Portuguese
      ver
      Catalan
      contemplar
      Spanish
      contemplar

      Look with amazement; look stupidly.

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            Usage of gawk in English
            1
            Where I come from the word gawk means to stare, to gape.
            The Irish Times
            2
            Citizens of London stopped to gawk, but neither Michael nor Chesna cared.
            The Wolf’s Hour
            3
            The standard incorporates features that originated in both new awk and gawk.
            Sed & awk, 2nd edition
            4
            Caroline and her friends continued to gawk at him, all looking moon-eyed.
            In every heartbeat
            5
            Believers who are blind now will gawk at the New Earth's wonders.
            Heaven
            6
            They come to buy, to gawk, to laugh, but they don't stay.
            Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
            7
            Three more people had come to gawk at the place of death.
            A fierce radiance: a novel
            8
            Here's a gawk at how Neon Wolf got on in the studio.
            The Irish Times
            9
            Off we went for a gawk at the new giant sports shop.
            The Irish Times
            10
            Besides the common extensions listed earlier, gawk has a number of additional features.
            Sed & awk, 2nd edition
            11
            Then we'll move on, towards another new frontier, another new gawk.
            The Guardian
            12
            People filtered into the room to help, or gawk, or gossip.
            The Wise Man’s Fear
            13
            No one had come to gawk as we went through our macabre routine.
            Flash and Bones
            14
            A dozen or so people had emerged from businesses and storefronts to gawk.
            Carrion comfort
            15
            Where relevant, we'll contrast the tawk feature with a comparable feature in gawk.
            Sed & awk, 2nd edition
            16
            Past his shoulder I see a spectator, some jogger who paused to gawk.
            Real life & liars
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            United States of America
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Less common