Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To gawk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gape; yawn.
- To stare with the mouth open in a stupid and dazed manner. [U. S.]
- To devour; eat greedily; swallow voraciously.
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- verb UK To
stare stupidly or rudely; togawk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I love that word gawp, not one is usage over here.
Picture This-September-Portraits Of Muhly « Fairegarden 2009
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While another Mumsnet user dropped by with a cake, to "gawp" at their celebrity visitor, the couple's teenage children were less impressed.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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While another Mumsnet user dropped by with a cake, to "gawp" at their celebrity visitor, the couple's teenage children were less impressed.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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While another Mumsnet user dropped by with a cake, to "gawp" at their celebrity visitor, the couple's teenage children were less impressed.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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She was frightened, frightened of these strange children being brought to gawp and stare at her.
Raw « Write Anything 2010
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But someone clearly objects to rubberneckers such as me coming to gawp at Hitler's legacy: on dozens of the boarded-up windows, someone has spraypainted "Touris raus!"
Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd 2011
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We all queued up to go and gawp at him; he looked like the Elephant Man.
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Why bother campaigning to legalise drugs when you could use your own airline to fly self-absorbed dopehead depressives out to Africa to gawp at poor people?
The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen 2012
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When Forbes first started to draw up its power league, the magazine probably imagined that it would induce readers to gasp with fear or gawp with respect.
The only power world leaders have is to frustrate each other | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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He'll be going home after the SRBs are fished out of the ocean and sent back for refurbishment.:: gawp::
Nebula Weekend, days 2-3 eugie 2010
yarb commented on the word gawp
You would see her in a life class
cross-hatching aimlessly
gawping not at the model but
at John and his charcoal 6B.
- Peter Reading, Ballad, from The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery, 1976
June 23, 2008