Gawk

Definition: Gawk

Gawk

Noun

1. An awkward stupid person.

Verb

1. Look with amazement; look stupidly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gawk" was first used: 1785. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

GAWK

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Gawk

Fool

Sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.

Crosswords: Gawk

Music

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Expression using "gawk": gawk person. Additional references.

Albanian

guak (gawky), ngathalaq. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حدق ببله, ‏المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), ‏الأخرق (clumsy, duffer, oaf), ‏البله. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стеснителен човек (introvert), тромав човек (hulk, lump, swab), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), несръчен човек (muff), дангалак (hobbledehoy). (various references)

Czech

nemotora (lubber, lump, muff), civìt (gape, stare). (various references)

Dutch

gapen (gape, yawn), aangapen (gape, gape at). (various references)

Esperanto

gapi (gape). (various references)

Faeroese

glana (gape), gapa (gape, yawn), gána (gape). (various references)

Farsi 

احمقانه نگاه کردن , بی خیال نگاه کردن . (various references)

Finnish

töllistellä (gape). (various references)

French

badauder (gape). (various references)

Frisian

gapje (gape). (various references)

German

glotzen (boggle, gape, gawp, goggle, stare), gaffen (gape, gawp, make eyes at, ogle, rubberneck, stare, stare at), Tölpel (booby, dolt, fool, gannet, hick, jay, muddler, rube, slob, yokel), schlacks, anglotzen (eyeball, eyeballing, gape, gape at, gawp at, goggle, goggle at). (various references)

Greek 

κρεμανταλάσ (lubber), μπούφοσ (booby, chump, sideboard), αδέξιος άνθρωπος. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתכל כ�'ולם, לב�"ות (gape, wonder). (various references)

Hungarian

esetlen ember (bumpkin, clod-hopper, fumbler), ügyefogyott ember (backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, fumbler, klutz, lame duck). (various references)

Indonesian

melongo. (various references)

Italian

guardare con aria sciocca, individuo goffo, allocco (ass, chump, fool, hardhead, loggerhead, oaf, owl, tawny owl, thickhead). (various references)

Manx

gammyl. (various references)

Pig Latin

awkgay.(various references)

Portuguese

tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, mousey, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous, unassertive), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), indivíduo acanhado, ficarboquiaberto (gape), ficar de boca aberta (gape), embasbacar‐se (gape), basbaque (dullard, gaper), abrir a boca de espanto. (various references)

Romanian

persoanã greoaie (gawky), bãlãlãu. (various references)

Russian 

разиня (chaw-bacon, cuckoo), глазеть (gape, stare), остолоп (bonehead, mutt, mutton head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dolt, dumdum, fool, gaby, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool), blenuti (agape). (various references)

Spanish

tomar moscas, papar moscas, bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

Swedish

tölp (boor, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, clown, lout, lubber, lummox, yokel), gapa (bawl, gape, hold one's mouth open, open one's mouth, stand open, stare, yawn, yell), drummel (ape, blunderhead, boob, booby, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (คำ�"ูถูก). (various references)

Turkish

utangaç kimse (shy, Violet), sakar kimse (butter fingers, butterfingers), esnemek (bulge, gape, give, spring, yawn, yield), beceriksiz kimse (bungler, duffer, fumbler), bakakalmak (gape, gawp, gaze at, stare, stare at), bön bön bakmak (gawp), aval aval bakmak (gawp, stare stupidly), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukrainian

телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, clod, cuckoo, dunderhead, fathead, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), витріщитися, йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clod, clot, dimwit, fathead, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany), незграбна людина (blimp, goon, laggard, lout, oaf, stiff). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người lóng ngóng người nhút nhát rụt rè. (various references)

gowen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gawk": gawked, gawker, gawkers, gawkier, gawkies, gawkiest, gawkily, gawkiness, gawkinesses, gawking, gawkish, gawkishly, gawkishness, gawkishnesses, gawks, gawky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gawk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agaw, agawk, agw, Agwi, awk, Egawa, fawk, gack, gaiw, gak, Galk, Galwak, gank, gark, gask, Gauck, gauk, gaw, gawa, gawck, gawd, gawe, gawl, gawn, gawt, gik, giw, gmwu, gnawk, goak, gok, gowk, gw, gwa, gwan, gwar, gwas, gyak, jawk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: wag.

-2 letters: ag, aw, ka.

+1 letter: gawks, gawky.

+2 letters: gawked, gawker, waking.

+3 letters: awaking, gawkers, gawkier, gawkies, gawkily, gawking, gawkish, goshawk, hawking, walking, warking, wauking, workbag.

+4 letters: gasworks, gawkiest, goshawks, hawkings, rewaking, swanking, tweaking, wakening, walkings, weakling, whacking, wigmaker, wingback, workbags, wracking, wreaking, wreckage.

+5 letters: awakening, backswing, gawkiness, gawkishly, glasswork, graywacke, lawmaking, nighthawk, reawaking, squawking, thwacking, wakenings, weakening, weaklings, wigmakers, wingbacks, wreckages.