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单词 gove
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govev.

Brit. /ɡəʊv/, U.S. /ɡoʊv/, Scottish English /ɡov/, Irish English /ɡoʊv/
Forms: English regional (chiefly northern) 1600s– gauve, 1800s gauave, 1800s– gawve, 1800s– goave, 1800s– gooave, 1800s– gove; Scottish pre-1700 gofe, pre-1700 goif, pre-1700 goue, pre-1700 gowe, pre-1700 goyf, pre-1700 1700s– gove, 1700s– goave; Irish English (northern) 1800s– gove.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare Icelandic gaufa to saunter, to be sluggish (17th cent.).Although similar in sense, earlier gaw v. is apparently etymologically unrelated.
Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern and north-west midlands).
1. intransitive. To stare idly or vacantly; to gaze, gape, gawp. Cf. gaw v.
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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
c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 82 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 131 Mete & drink vald nocht assay, bot to þe hewine ves govand ay.
c1480 (a1400) Seven Sleepers 329 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 435 A-bout hyme fast þan gowit he, gyf he mycht ony þane se.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 Apon the galland for to goif it gladit me agane.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1461 in Shorter Poems (1967) 94 Thus in stare quhy standis thou stupefak? Gouand all day.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 32 We pronounce it Gaum and Gauve; and speak it of persons that unhandsomely gaze or look about them.
1728 A. Ramsay 2nd Answer to Somerville 35 Nae mair they'd gaunt and gove away, Or sleep or loiter out the day.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 298 How he star'd an' stammer'd! When goavan 's he'd been led wi' branks..He in the parlour hammer'd.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xiii. 192 The wild beasts of the forest came..And goved around, charmed and amazed.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 150 A tumbler at a fair, Whair thousands round him goave and stare.
1922 Swatches o' Hamespun 57 Tam's wae face wis a study... He jist steed an' goaved.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 50/1 Gauve,..to stare with the wonder of stupidity.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 152/1 Gove, stare, gaze, especially in a mindless way.
2000 J. Robertson Fanatic 45 Whit's the daft laddie daein goavin up at the jail there?
2. transitive. To look at, examine. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold
to look to ——eOE
showeOE
lookeOE
lookOE
behold971
beseec1000
seeOE
to see on ——OE
yseeOE
yseeOE
belookc1175
to look against ——c1225
to lay eyes onc1230
biwaita1250
holde1303
aseea1325
to see upon ——a1350
rewardc1350
to look of ——?c1400
eyea1425
visage1450
aviewa1513
gove1513
regard1523
to look unto ——1545
respect1567
survise1600
aspect1610
reflect1611
inspeculate1694
spectate1709
to look for ——1786
deek1825
lookit1908
lamp1916
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iv. 68 Sic way he wrocht that, quha thair tred lyst gove, Na takynnys suld convoy thaim to his cove.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at To goif, goue, gove, goave, goup To examine, to investigate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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