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单词 gawk
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gawkn.1

Brit. /ɡɔːk/, U.S. /ɡɔk/, /ɡɑk/
Etymology: perhaps < gawk n.2; but see gawk v.
An awkward person; a fool; a simpleton. Johnson, followed by later lexicographers, confounds this with gowk n., cuckoo, simpleton.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun]
lubber1362
looby1377
howfing?a1513
slouch?1518
bowberta1522
knuckylbonyarda1529
lob1533
lout1548
patch1549
hoballa1556
lilburnea1556
lobcocka1556
chub1558
hick1565
lourd1579
peasant1581
clown1583
lubbard1586
lumberer1593
lump1597
blooterc1600
boobyc1600
lob-coat1604
hoy1607
bacon-brainsa1635
alcatote1638
oaf1638
kelf1665
brute1670
dowf1722
gawky1724
chuckle1731
chuckle-head1731
John Trott1753
stega1823
lummoxa1825
gawk1837
country jakea1854
guffin1862
galoot1866
stot1877
lobster1896
mutt1900
palooka1920
schlub1950
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. 299 They [his sons] proved ‘such gawks’ that they were unable to learn.
1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 114 That barenecked hooing gawk Stewart.
1894 H. Caine Manxman 10 The girl was by common judgment and report a gawk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gawkn.2

Brit. /ɡɔːk/, U.S. /ɡɔk/, /ɡɑk/
Etymology: < gawk v.
colloquial or dialect.
A look, a glance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun]
eie wurpc950
laitc1175
looka1200
lecha1250
sightc1275
insighta1375
blushc1390
castc1400
glentc1400
blenkc1440
regardc1450
ray1531
view1546
beam of sight1579
eye-beam1583
eyewink1591
blink1594
aspecta1616
benda1616
eyeshot1615
eye-casta1669
twire1676
ken1736
Magdalene-look1752
glimmering1759
deek1833
wink1847
deck1853
vision1855
pipe1865
skeg1876
dekko1894
screw1904
slant1911
gander1914
squiz1916
butcher's hook1934
butcher's1936
gawk1940
bo-peep1941
nose1976
1940 S. O'Casey Let. 6 Nov. (1975) I. 873 Why not have a little gawk, now and again, at Finnegans Wake?
1941 S. O'Casey Let. 9 July (1975) I. 892 I should..love to have a gawk at your chairmanship.
1978 E. O'Brien Mary in Mrs. Reinhardt & Other Stories 132 I had a gawk at the letter she got.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gawkadj.

Brit. /ɡɔːk/, U.S. /ɡɔk/, /ɡɑk/
Forms: Also gauk.
Etymology: Of difficult etymology; apparently a contraction of a disyllabic word which appears in many north-English dialects as gaulick-, galloc-, gaulish- (hand, handed): see Ray N.C. Words 1674–91 (E.D.S.), Thoresby Let. to Ray 1703 (E.D.S.), and the Whitby and Mid-Yorkshire glossaries. The natural assumption that the word represents an adoption of a prehistoric form of French gauche has grave difficulties: it is not certain that the etymon of the French word had an l at all (see Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, where it is assumed that the word has lost a nasal); and even on the common view that gauche represents an Old Low Frankish *walki, it would be expected that an English adoption old enough to retain the l would have w as the initial.
Left. Also in combinations, as gawk-handed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > positions or directions in body > [adjective] > specific
rightOE
lefta1200
lowera1400
furtherc1400
lateral?a1425
sinistera1500
upper1528
anterior?1541
inferior1563
superior1566
oblique1578
high1588
ascendant1611
prone1646
peripherial1653
internal1657
supine1661
peripherical1690
gawk1703
ascending1713
adducent1722
submental1722
adductory1752
subdorsal1783
syntropic18..
atlantal1803
mesiad1803
mesial1803
proximal1803
sternal1803
distal1808
peripheral1808
peripheric1818
ventripetal1819
submedial1825
anteriormostc1826
subvertebral1827
afferent1828
sinistral1828
rostral1834
interganglionic1835
submedian1836
mesian1837
haemal1839
supravaginal1844
neural1846
symmetrical1851
suprameatal1853
paraxial1861
posterial1866
hypaxial1873
postaxial1873
preaxial1873
transmedial1876
transmedian1876
mediad1878
horizontal1881
mesal1881
prosomatic1882
dextrad1883
paramedian1890
prorsal1890
ventro-dorsal1895
midsagittal1898
ventro-axial1902
ventro-posterior1903
ipsilateral1907
parasagittal1907
ventromedial1908
homolateral1910
suprasellar1912
supratemporal1975
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Gawk hand, Gallock hand, [the] left hand.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 68 Gauk-handed, left-handed.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Gawk-hand, the left hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gawkv.

Brit. /ɡɔːk/, U.S. /ɡɔk/, /ɡɑk/
Forms: Also gauk.
Etymology: perhaps < gawk n.2; possibly, on the other hand, an iterative < gaw v. (with suffix as in tal-k, wal-k, lur-k), in which case it may be the source of the noun.
colloquial, originally U.S. or dialect.
intransitive. To stare or gape stupidly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze
stareOE
gawc1175
darea1225
porec1300
muse1340
glowc1374
gogglec1380
gazec1386
glore?a1400
glopc1400
govec1480
glower?a1513
gowk1513
daze1523
amuse1532
glew1587
to feed one's eyes1590
to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598
to shoot one's eyes1602
glazea1616
stargaze1639
gaum1691
to stare like a stuck pig1702
ygaze1737
gawk1785
to feed one's sight1813
gloze1853
glow1856
1785 M. Cutler Let. 28 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 227 We..do little else than sit in the chimney-corner, repeating over the same dull stories, or gawking at one another with sorry grimace.
1862 Mrs. Stoddard Morgesons (1889) xiii. 68 The whole table stared as we seated ourselves..‘How they gawk at you’, whispered Temperance.
a1866 Keble in Sir J. Coleridge Mem. K. (1869) 111 Making one ashamed of going gawking as one is wont to do about the world.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Gauk, to stare vacantly.
1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 528/1 I'd like t' know what you'd say if I went down thar and gawked around like you do up yere.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Gawk, to loiter and gape about.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 8/1 Many of the audience turned round to ‘gawk’—as he phrased it—at a poor fainting girl.
1959 ‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching vii. 82 Everyone will come and gawk.
1965 C. D. Eby Siege of Alcázar (1966) ii. 58 Gawking in wonder at the falling bombs.

Derivatives

ˈgawking adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > staring or gazing
gloringa1400
staring1483
glowering?a1513
gazing1553
gauring1558
gawish1567
gazeful1595
gawking1817
gazy1883
whole-eyed1911
1817 Massachusetts Spy 2 Apr. All with their wives, and some with their gawking offspring.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xv. 237 The men..turned..savagely on the offensive..unmindful of the gawking creatures that struggled and died among their feet.

Draft additions 1993

ˈgawker n. one who gawks.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > starer or gazer
gazer1548
starer1600
gogglea1625
stare-about1631
gapera1637
gloater1659
ogler1692
gilly-gaupus?1719
gape-seed1885
gongoozler1904
gawker1951
gawper1965
1951 Harper's Mag. July 96/1 The simple gawker and head-turner is changing into something that looks suspiciously like a historian on wheels.
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 22- a/2 Gawkers filled the street outside Nadine's condominium the Thursday night after her death and police had to rope off little Gary Lane.
1986 L. Tourney Bartholomew Fair Murders (1987) ix. 88 Some of the gawkers began to disperse,..because their curiosity was satisfied.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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