gowk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cuckoo. Northern-England,Scotland
  2. An apple core. Geordie
  3. A fool.
    — "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper.
  4. The central part of any thing; pith; core. Geordie,obsolete
  5. The hard centre of a boil or sore. dialectal
  6. The yolk of an egg. dialectal
  7. The inner part of a haystack. dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To make foolish; to stupefy.
    — look how the man stands as he were gowk'd
  2. To retch; vomit. dialectal

词形变化

gowks plural gowks present,singular,third-person gowking participle,present gowked participle,past gowked past gowks plural goke alternative goak alternative gauk alternative gouk alternative geak alternative cowk alternative gowks present,singular,third-person gowking participle,present gowked participle,past gowked past

词汇关系

衍生词
begowk glimmer-gowk hunt the gowk

词源

词源 1
From Middle English goke, gowke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰegʰuǵʰ- (“cuckoo”).
词源 2
Origin uncertain. Likely from Middle English coke, colk (“the core or heart of an apple or onion, pith”), from Old English *colc (“the gullet, esophagus; pit of the stomach; trench, pit, gully”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulkaz, *kulukaz (“gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to devour, swallow, gulp; throat, gullet”). Possibly a doublet of coke.
词源 3
Compare Norwegian Nynorsk gulka (“to burp, belch”). Compare also Scots cowk (“to strain, retch”), Dutch kolken (“to belch”), German kolken (“to gulp”), dialectal German kölken, kolksen (“to vomit”), Danish kulke (“to gulp”).
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