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

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).

n.¹1837

n.²1940

adj.1703

v.1785

单词	gawk
释义	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). < n.¹1837n.²1940adj.1703v.1785
随便看	to have it over a person to have it rough to have it wired to have itchy feet to have its days to have its end upon to have its ends upon to have its moment to have iwald to have jam on it to have joy of to have kittens to have known better days to have law to do to have left to have legs to have liefer to have light fingers to have little miss of to have little price of to have little price upon to have little, no scruple to have livery to have long hands to have lot

gawkn.1

gawkn.2

gawkadj.

gawkv.

Derivatives

Draft additions 1993

gawkn.¹

gawkn.²