gawk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
    — His morning prey he craveth; So crowed the gawk of carrion⁶ […] (6) Gawk of carrion = [kenning for] raven.
  2. A conspicuous or stupid stare or gape; an instance of gawking.
    — ... the gawks and gapes of townsfolk as stares of admiration.
  3. A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To stare or gape stupidly.
  2. To stare conspicuously.
  3. To suck. colloquial,vulgar

词形变化

gawks plural gawks present,singular,third-person gawking participle,present gawked participle,past gawked past gawks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gawk-handed gawky gawkish gawkling gawksome gawker mopery with intent to gawk

词源

词源 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 ġēac.
Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
词源 2
Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) + -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).
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