Synonyms for gawked
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : gawk |
| Phonetic Transcription : gɔk |
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Définition of gawked
Origin :- 1785, American English, perhaps from gaw, a survival from Middle English gowen "to stare" (c.1200), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse ga "to heed," from Proto-Germanic *gawon-, from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (see favor (n.)); and altered perhaps by gawk hand (see gawky). Liberman writes that it "need not have been derived from gowk. It is possibly another independent imitative formation with the structure g-k. Related: Gawked; gawking.
- verb stare at in amazement
- Well, isn't there some place we can go where we won't be gawked at by all these hoodlums?
- Extract from : « Tabitha's Vacation » by Ruth Alberta Brown
- He just gawked at him from the deck, noting that the man had one hand on a sheath knife.
- Extract from : « The Syndic » by C.M. Kornbluth
- I stood there with my chin two inches from the rug and gawked at him.
- Extract from : « Call Him Savage » by John Pollard
- In any case she must often have been stung by the exasperation of those at whom she gawked.
- Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
- He gawked, reddening; his right hand quivered; and to my chagrin he slowly laughed, scanning me.
- Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
- As he came down the street he stopped occasionally and gawked around.
- Extract from : « The Expressman and the Detective » by Allan Pinkerton
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