gapen.
/ɡeɪp/, U.S. /ɡeɪp/ 1. The act of opening the mouth; a yawn.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > gaping or yawning > action
moutha1275
gape1535
galp1577
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 466 The fox..with mony girne and gaip..makis debait als lang as that he ma.
1745 R. Graves Euphrosyne (1776) I. 70 Now a gen'ral gape goes round, And vapours cloud each sleepy head.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vii. 151 Balking a good gape, by forcing your lips close together.
2.
a. An open-mouthed stare; a gaze of wonder or curiosity.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > stare or gaze
stare1553
gaze1566
goggle1651
gloze1654
gape1660
glower1715
dead set1781
death stare1818
death glare1819
eyeful1847
gape-seed1852
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 111 Thou hast hung thy Reader up in the Air, and there left him among Gapes and Stares.
1768 Woman of Honor ii. 83 Paintings, statues, monuments..that so vulgarly satisfy the silly superficial gape of travelling sight-mongers.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters v. 118 A sea-port town—the inhabitants of which appear to have more leisure for gape and gossip than any others.
1870 Daily News 4 Oct. 6/1 Numerous English tourists, bound for a gape at the battle-field of Sedan.
b. figurative. A state of eagerness or wonder: also in phrase upon the gape. ? Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > eagerly
upon the gape1712
breathless1768
tiptoed1819
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder
wonderc1290
ecstasyc1384
mazednessc1395
study?1397
mazec1425
wonderfulness1532
wonderment1535
gape1712
astoundment1810
marvelment1823
jouissance1968
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 452. ¶3 The Mind is not here kept in a perpetual Gape after Knowledge.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 24. 158 The chief skill is to keep them still upon the Gape.
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 26 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 8 I have been upon the full silly gape to find out things that I had not found before.
3. the gapes:
a. A disease in poultry, etc., of which frequent gaping is the symptom.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of poultry
roup1551
squeck1577
gargil1614
roup1614
the gapes1799
garget1817
snifters1844
white comb1853
bumble foot1854
wry-tail1880
blackhead1894
bacillary white diarrhoea1909
limber-neck1910
(avian or fowl) leucosis complex1922
pullorum1929
perosis1931
fowl paralysis1932
scissor beak1934
blue comb1939
hexamitiasis1941
pullet disease1941
Marek's disease1947
new wheat disease1950
X disease1950
sour crop1951
fowl cholera-
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 204 There is a disease prevalent among the gallinaceous poultry in this country, called the gaps.
1864 Intellectual Observer No. 33. 197 Every keeper of poultry is acquainted with the ‘gapes’.
1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 158 The most destructive disease prevalent among partridges is that which is commonly known by the name of the ‘gapes’.
b. humorous. A fit of yawning or staring.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > gaping or yawning > fit of
the gapesa1817
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. viii. 161 Another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed. View more context for this quotation
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. iii What gave me the gapes was the scenes [at the theatre].
4.
a. The expanse of an open mouth or beak.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > expanse of
ricture1656
rictus1685
gape1766
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 98 The gape of the bill, when opened, is near two inches from tip to tip.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 214 The narwhal, however, has a much narrower gape than the great whale.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 169 Pike..The gape of the jaw is wide.
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 38 He opens his gape like a fledgling to its parent.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Sept. 12/1 Hawks..remarkable for the size of their gape and the shortness of their beaks.
b. The part of the beak which can be opened; the line of commissure of the mandibles.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > beak or bill > parts of
cere1486
sheath1781
tomium1824
culmen1833
gape1833
1833 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Isles (1841) I. 28 From the gape of the bill to the eyes a black streak extends.
1883 H. N. Martin & W. A. Moale Handbk. Vertebr. Dissect. 93 Each so-called mandible is hard and horny at its tip, but becomes softer near the angle of the gape.
1886 W. W. Fowler Year with Birds 83 The gape of the mouth furnished with strong hairs.
c. (See quot. 1848.)
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1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Gape, in Conchology, an opening in multivalves and bivalves when the valves are shut.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. xi. 104 At the edges of this ‘gape’ of the shell [of the fresh water mussel] the thickened margins of a part of the..mantle become visible.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. xi. 105.
5.
a. A rent or opening of any kind.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun]
holec725
thirla900
eyeOE
opena1200
opening?c1225
overturec1400
overta1425
wideness?c1425
howe1487
hiatus1563
vent1594
apertion1599
ferme1612
notch1615
sluice1648
gape1658
aperture1661
want1664
door1665
hiulcitya1681
to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720
vista1727
light1776
ope1832
lacuna1872
doughnut hole1886
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. iii. 7 Thereby the wound comes to its old gape and shape.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 251 This hurries along as the gape deepens, and becomes, at every step, more declivous.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 3/2 She breaks off her thread with an energetic pull, and thus overstraining her last stitch causes in time an unseemly gape in that seam.
b. Nautical. The principal crevice or crack in shaken timber.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
Compounds
gape-worm n. the worm that causes the gapes (see 3a).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Strongylidae > member of
redworm1810
strongyle1829
gape-worm1873
strongyloid1878
1873 L. Wright Illustr. Bk. Poultry 196 The egg of the gape-worm.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 217/3 Gape Worm Extractor..quickly removes, without injury to the chick, the worms..from the windpipe.
1935 Discovery Sept. 266 Syngamus trachea, the Gape Worm of poultry and other birds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gapev.
/ɡeɪp/, U.S. /ɡeɪp/ 1. intransitive.
a.
(a) To open the mouth wide, esp. in order to bite or swallow anything. Said also of the mouth.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > open
yawnc725
ganec1000
gapec1220
galp1377
inhiate1542
gawne1563
gawp1728
yawp1836
c1220 Bestiary 506 Ðis fis..ðanne him hungreð he gapeð wide.
a1225 St. Marher. 9 He..ȝeonede [MS. Bodl. geapede, misprinted ȝeapede] mid his wide geneow uppon hire.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2372 Þe werwolf..as a wod best went hem a-ȝens, Gapand ful grimli.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 2763 Ȝenande & gapande on him so, Ase he wolde him swolwe þo.
14.. Tundale's Vis. 149 Her mowthes wer wyde, þai gapud fast.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 560/2 I gape, as a beest dothe that entendeth to byte, whiche holdeth his mouthe open afore.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 294/1 Such Fellows..are fed with Roasted Pigs and good Ale as long as they can gape.
1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋11 Opening their Mouths as wide as they could gape.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 605/1 Heads..that gape, and grin, in stone around the inside of the old Round Church (my church) of the Templars.
(b) Proverbial phrases.
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1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. ix. sig. Bii He that gapeth tyll he be fed, Maie fortune to fast, and famishe for hunger.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 657/2 A man ought not to chide with a foole, nor gape ouer an ouen.
1709 Brit. Apollo 26–28 Oct. She will gape like a Pig on a Spit.
b. transferred of earth, hell, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] > be or become wide open
yawnc890
gapec1480
galp1546
yaw1596
chawn1598
yawn1600
chaum1610
dehisce1657
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 541 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 311 Þar-for me wonderis..þat þe erd gapand wyd, me swelyt nocht.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. vii. 70 Then shall hell gape and gryn.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. v. D Therfore gapeth hel, and openeth hyr mouth marvelous wyde.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 47 Gape Earth, and this unhappy Wretch intomb.
1705 G. Berkeley Descr. Cave of Dunmore in Wks. (1871) IV. 507 This..water runs but a little way ere the rock gapes to swallow it.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxviii. 96 A gulf that ever shuts and gapes . View more context for this quotation
c. Of a bivalve: To open the shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [verb (intransitive)] > open the shell
gape?1577
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 38 The Crab presently putteth a little stone into the Oyster as he gapeth.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 293. ¶9 An Oyster, which lay in the neighbourhood of this Drop, chanced to gape and swallow it up.
d. Used jocularly for ‘to open’.
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1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme i. sig. A3 He was here three dayes before the Exchequer gapte.
e. transitive. To open (the mouth) wide. †to gape out: to emit with open mouth. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > let out > with open mouth
to gape out1608
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (transitive)] > open
undoa1000
stretch1600
gape1608
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. E1 So shee forgetting modesty gapte out a laughter.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 204 Beyond these were two indented jaws DD, which he opened side-wayes, and was able to gape them asunder very wide.
1892 H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island 11 A man's head gaped its mouth to ask..what young Quarrell wanted there.
2. intransitive. Of material objects, wounds, etc.: To open as a mouth; to split, crack, part asunder.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] > open by moving apart
opena1398
gape1577
to open out1731
sever1797
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 86 After the tenth of Iune, when the ground gapes with the heate of the Sunne.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 593 The Tyburtine stones..if the heat of summer take them, they will gape and be ready to cleaue in sunder.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 398/1 A Stitching Quill..is an instrument by means whereof a wound that gapeth is drawn together, or stitched up.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 279 Think'st thou..that..the wounds of the slaughtered corpse will gape..?
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The seams gape, or let in water.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 799 If this portion [of the root] is split, the parts generally gape concavely outwards.
3.
a. to gape on or upon, now more commonly to gape at: to stare at with open mouth, to gaze upon in curiosity or wonder.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at
bestarec1220
bigapea1250
to gape atc1290
fix14..
to stick one's eyes in (also into)c1485
attacha1500
porec1500
to take feeding (of)c1500
stare1510
(to have) in gaze1577
gaze1591
outstare1596
over-stare1600
devour1628
trysta1694
ogle1795
begaze1802
toise1888
fixate1889
rubberneck1897
eyeball1901
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder or astonishment at [verb (transitive)] > gaze in wonder at
to gape on or uponc1290
to gape ata1586
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (transitive)]
to gape uponc1340
galp1546
gape1552
to gape ata1586
to die for1591
ambition1601
raven1607
ambigate1633
ambitionate?c1642
ambiate1659
sparkle1665
to be for1673
efflagitate1676
greed1848
to be spoiling for1865
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 108/66 On hire gapede alday swyþe muche folc þere..for hire continaunce was wonderful.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiij v Upon the sewer, well mayst thou gase & gape.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K3 What is it to make folkes gape at a wretched Begger, or a beggerly Clowne?
1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) ii. ii. vi. iii. 295 The dog and hare, wolfe and lambe..stood all gaping vp on Orpheus.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. i. 197 Like a country villager gaping at rarities which he had never seen before.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 170 Levaine gaped upon him As on a thing miraculous.
1885 Manch. Examiner 12 May 5/3 The larger the town the more ready are people to gape at new sights.
b. absol. To stare in wonder or admiration.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > feel wonder, be amazed [verb (intransitive)] > gaze in wonder
gaurec1374
starea1375
gape1377
to stare like a stuck pig1702
gawp1728
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 41 Tho that feynen hem folis..And do men for to gape.
c1386 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 287 This Nicholas sat ay as stille as ston, And ever he gaped upward into the eire.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 156 And whan y cam to þat court y gaped aboute.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 560/2 I gape..I loke stedfastly upon a thyng.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 181 Man..was not meant to gape or looke upward with the eye. View more context for this quotation
?a1700 Song in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 88 There's braw lads in Earnslaw..Wha gape and glowr with their eye, At kirk when they see my Marion.
1751 E. Carter Rambler No. 100. ⁋2 They may not gape, and wonder, and stare.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 195 When the wonder of the town began to abate, the country came gaping in.
4. † c. absol.; also transitive = gape after. Obsolete.
a. to gape after or for (also †to gape at, †to gape upon): to be eager to obtain, to have a longing for (something).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (transitive)]
to gape uponc1340
galp1546
gape1552
to gape ata1586
to die for1591
ambition1601
raven1607
ambigate1633
ambitionate?c1642
ambiate1659
sparkle1665
to be for1673
efflagitate1676
greed1848
to be spoiling for1865
c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 41 As if þou ware abydande or gapand after sum qwent stirringe.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1408 Fulle many men knowe I that yane and gape After some fatte and riche benefice.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xx. 156 Importune suters wil gape vpon suche reuersiouns.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. C.ijv It is no newe thyng that men gape for hygh and frayle thynges.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxx. xl. 768 He gaped at [L. petens] the honour of finishing the same [war].
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 190 The basenesse of a minde that gapeth for nothing but money.
1672 A. Marvell Let. 18 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 270 The greedy appetites of those who haue been so many years gaping after this profit.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 29 Apr. 25 Multitudes..who awake in the morning, vacant of thought, with minds gaping for the intellectual food, which some kind Essayist has been accustomed to supply.
1827–48 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 540 It is not solely in the Gospel that people go out into the desert to gape after new spiritual incarnations.
b. with infinitive: to desire eagerly to do (something).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (intransitive)] > to do something
gapea1340
to be dying to do1709
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xiii. 5 Glottery, þat..is ay gapand to take.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 290 Whan oure lady com to þis munke..he gapid for to haue of here lycoure.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 98 If they finde the spring hed of the euell within themselues, why gape they to finde out foreine causes.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 222 Some others who gape to swallow up and make a prey of that little which remaineth.
a1748 C. Pitt Ep. to Mr. Spence 22 Studying his looks, and watching at the board, He gapes to catch the droppings of my lord.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 122 Lincolnshire friends..are gaping with mouths wide open to have their curiosity satisfied.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (intransitive)]
famish1535
gape1552
to gasp for1553
pant1560
mantle1657
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (transitive)]
to gape uponc1340
galp1546
gape1552
to gape ata1586
to die for1591
ambition1601
raven1607
ambigate1633
ambitionate?c1642
ambiate1659
sparkle1665
to be for1673
efflagitate1676
greed1848
to be spoiling for1865
1552 H. Latimer Fruitf. Serm. (1575) 124 I pray God geue vnto us such hartes, that we may be content to liue in our calling, and not to gape farther.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 106v For whiles you knew I was your own, So long in vaine you made me gape.
1651 T. L. To Church of Rome in Πολύπενϑεος Θρηνωδία 13 Your..brethren, which walke..gaping the comming of a second Messias.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead > have mouth open
gape1352
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > gasp or catch breath
gape1352
gaspa1393
to catch the aira1616
kink1691
keck1721
1352 L. Minot Poems vii. 135 Was þou noght, Franceis, with þi wapin Bitwixen Cressy and Abuyle? Whare þi felaws lien and gapin.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1076 He gapede, he groned faste, with grucchande latez, ffor grefe of þe gude kyng.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xlviii. sig. ddij/2 They byshadow themself with the fote whan they lye gapyng [a1398 BL Add. neuelyng] on the grounde in stronge hete of the sonne.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1090 One to the hart the spere goith throw the scheld, The knychtis gaping lyith in the feld.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 185 Richt scharpe schutting on ilk syde mycht be sene, Quhen mony grume la gaippand on the grene.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 260 The Gray Freiris gapped, the Blak Frearis blew, the Preastis panted, and fled.
6.
a. To yawn, esp. from weariness.Now rare in southern English and in literature; common colloquially in midland and northern districts.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > be or become drowsy [verb (intransitive)] > yawn
raxOE
gapec1440
yawn1450
raxle?c1475
ream?a1500
gant1513
oscitate1623
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 186/1 Gapyn, hio, oscito.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 560/1 There is never no man that gapeth but other he is wery or he lacketh somwhat.
1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. Bv To gape in such vnseemely sort, with vgly gaping mouth, Is like an image pictured, a blowing from the south.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 186 He, at the sight of supper, wont to fall A yawning, gapes and gapes, and that is all.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 134 He gapes in the Theatre.
1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 2 She stretches, Gapes unglues her Eyes And asks if it be time to rise.
b. to gape away: to pass (the time) in yawning.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > make drowsy [verb (transitive)] > pass away (time) drowsily > in yawning
yawn1742
to gape away1883
1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 699/2 We scarcely saw a soul except a few..loafers gaping away the weary hours.
7. To bawl or shout. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
talec1275
rounda1325
cryc1384
shoutc1385
hallowc1420
roupa1425
glaster1513
hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
holler1699
halloo1709
belvea1794
parliament1893
foghorn1918
rort1931
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 356 He gapeth and cryeth out vppon Oecolampadius.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) i. sig. A4 Peace good Gudgin gape not so loude.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Bbv/2 He ever gapes, when he speaks, il crie toujours, quand il parle.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Geeap, to gape. Also to bawl or talk loudly.
Compounds
C1. The verb-stem in combination, as gape-jaw.
ΚΠ
1876 R. Browning Shop 7 What gimcracks, genuine Japanese; Gape-jaw and goggle-eye, the frog.
C2.
gape-eyed adj. (see quot.).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having
goggle-eyedc1384
well-eyed1483
pink-eyed1519
hollow-eyeda1529
small-eyed1555
great-eyed1558
bird-eyed1564
out-eyed1570
large-eyed1575
full-eyed1581
bright-eyed1590
wall-eyed1590
beetle-eyed1594
fire-eyed?1594
young-eyed1600
open-eyed1601
soft-eyed1606
narrow-eyed1607
broad-eyed?1611
saucer-eyed1612
ox-eyed1621
pig-eyed1655
glare-eyed1683
pit-eyed1696
dove-eyed1717
laughing-eyed1784
almond1786
wide-eyed1789
moon-eyed1790
big-eyed1792
gooseberry-eyed1796
red-eyed1800
unsealed1800
screw-eyed1810
starry-eyed1818
pinkie-eyed1824
pop-eyed1830
bead-eyed1835
fishy-eyed1836
almond-eyed1849
boopic1854
sharp-set1865
bug-eyed1872
beady-eyed1873
bias-eyed1877
blank-eyed1881
gape-eyed1889
glass-eyed1889
stone-eyed1890
pie-eyed1900
slitty-eyed1908
steely-eyed1964
megalopic1985
1889 Cent. Dict. Gape-eyed, in herpet[ology], naked-eyed; having apparently no eyelids: as, the gape-eyed skinks.
gape-gaze v. dialect (intransitive) to gaze with open mouth, or with eagerness.
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1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. 249 T' most part o' girls as has looks like hers are always gape-gazing to catch other folks' eyes.
gape-scene n. ? nonce-word (see quot.).
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1855 F. Chamier My Trav. II. x. 164 There is not a window which has not one of these gape-scenes [Balconies].
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