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gowked, ppl. a. Sc.|gaʊkɪd|
Forms: 6 gouket, 7 gowkit, 8 gouked, goukit, 9 gowket, 7– gowked.
[app. an alteration of gucked, assimilated to gowk.]
Foolish.
a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 88 Ȝour gryses grunȝie is graceless and gowked. 1622[Scot] Course Conformitie ii. 27 Their apparell, their trayns, fleshly pleasure, and gowkit gloriositie. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 351 Yet there is no gowked (if I may so speak) nor fond loue in Christ. 1790Morison Poems 187 Fool goukit chield, sic stuff as that to true.
Hence ˈgowkedly adv., ˈgowkedness.
c1570Arbuthnot in Pinkerton Maitland Poems (1786) 141 Alace, men hes the wyit! That geves sa gouketlie Sic rewleris onperfyte. 1883G. Macdonald D. Grant I. xxiv. 257 Mrs. Brookes paused, lost in contemplation of the gowkedness of Eppy. |