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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.

ver
Synonyms
Examples for "gape"
Examples for "gape"
1
Where I come from the word gawk means to stare, to gape.
The Irish Times
2
I simply nodded and did my best not to gape or stare.
Nocturnal
3
In order to gape, the cut must pass through the deep skin.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
4
Ross couldn't help but gape in confusion as the implications suggested themselves.
Bedlam
5
The police cover Finney's body with a sheet, as the gapers gape.
Once upon a time in America
1
Look at the silly things gaping like goggle-eyed perch at the window.
The Desired Woman
2
Then the surface was broken with a gurgle, and the goggle-eyes appeared.
Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters
3
But that ugly brute; Mortimer, with his goggle eyes, had spoiled everything.
Okewood of the Secret Service
4
I felt mean to be stared at by such gigantic goggle-eyed creatures.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
5
He picked it up, examined it, and stared at his friend, goggle-eyed.
Winter’s Tale
1
Do please come and gawp and cheer, but bring your own sandwiches.
The Guardian
2
I gawp at them, wondering whether they are anatomically different to me.
The Irish Times
3
I can always take time out of my busy schedule to gawp.
The new yorker
4
Still, worth enduring to gawp at the ludicrous twist in the tale.
The Irish Times
5
Still, the triumph for Youth does make one gawp just a little.
The Irish Times
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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Translations for gawk
Gawk through the time
Gawk across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common