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gawpus dial.|ˈgɔːpəs|
Also gaupus.
[? f. gawp v.]
A silly person, simpleton.
1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 110 O ye gawpus! Ye great gawpus! It's me, man—it's me! 1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth II. iii. 44 The great gaupus never seed that I were pipeclaying the same places twice over. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxvi. 362 The gawpuses have sooked it all in, and I'll be bound, raced off so fast as wind and tide 'ud carry 'em.
So ˈgawpy, of the same meaning.
1825–80Jamieson, Gaup, a stupid person, other forms are Gaupus, Gaupie. Banffsh. 1843Carlyle in Froude Life 1834–1881 (1884) I. 306 Those open-mouthed wondering gawpies, who lodge you for the sake of looking at you. |