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† ˈgawish, a. Obs.
[? gaw v. + -ish. In all the examples, conceivably a misprint for gawrish, garish; but the occurrence of gaw v. in Drant confirms the reading in the first quot.]
Staring, gaping; showy, gaudy.
1567Drant Horace's Ep. ii. i. G vj, A gawishe sort gredie to gase Not gredie to be tawght. 1567J. Sandford tr. Epictetus 11 a, What is our life? a gawish game, a sweete delighting play. 1589L. Wright Displ. Dutie 41 Your attyre..not gawish, but godly: as beseemeth Christianitie. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 74 The minde is set vpon fashions, fangles, and gawish cloathes, now one, and then another. 1616T. Adams Diseases of Soul xvii. 65 A gawish Traueller that came to Sparta, who standing in the presence of Lacon a long time vpon one leg, that he might be obserued & admired, cryed at the last, ‘O Lacon, thou’ [etc.]. |