gawk

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• /ɡɔːk/
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From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ġēac. Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.

Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) + -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: глупак (glupak) — stupid or clumsy person
• Bulgarian: дръвник (drǎvnik) — stupid or clumsy person
• Czech: nemotora — stupid or clumsy person
• Czech: nemehlo — stupid or clumsy person
• Finnish: tumpelo — stupid or clumsy person
• Finnish: toljake — stupid or clumsy person
• Galician: trosma — stupid or clumsy person
• Georgian: ლენჩი (lenči) — stupid or clumsy person
• Georgian: რეგვენი (regveni) — stupid or clumsy person
• German: Tölpel — stupid or clumsy person
• German: Einfaltspinsel — stupid or clumsy person
• German: Tollpatsch — stupid or clumsy person
• Polish: gamoń — stupid or clumsy person
• Russian: раззява (razzjava) — stupid or clumsy person
• Spanish: mentecato — stupid or clumsy person
• Bulgarian: зяпам (zjapam) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Bulgarian: гледам глупаво (gledam glupavo) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Czech: čučet — to stare or gape stupidly
• Czech: čumět — to stare or gape stupidly
• Czech: brejlit — to stare or gape stupidly
• Czech: civět — to stare or gape stupidly
• Danish: glane — to stare or gape stupidly
• Danish: glo — to stare or gape stupidly
• Danish: måbe — to stare or gape stupidly
• Finnish: töllistellä — to stare or gape stupidly
• French: badauder — to stare or gape stupidly
• French: bayer aux corneilles — to stare or gape stupidly
• French: béer — to stare or gape stupidly
• Georgian: მიშტერება (mišṭereba) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Georgian: მიჩერება (mičereba) — to stare or gape stupidly
• German: blöde glotzen — to stare or gape stupidly
• Māori: titiro māhoi — to stare or gape stupidly
• Māori: titiro mākutu — to stare or gape stupidly
• Māori: titiro whakatau — to stare or gape stupidly
• Polish: gapić się — to stare or gape stupidly
• Russian: тара́щиться (taráščitʹsja) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Russian: пя́литься (pjálitʹsja) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Russian: смотре́ть с глу́пым ви́дом (smotrétʹ s glúpym vídom) — to stare or gape stupidly
• Serbo-Croatian: blenuti — to stare or gape stupidly
• Serbo-Croatian: buljiti — to stare or gape stupidly
• Slovak: čumieť — to stare or gape stupidly
• Slovak: očumovať — to stare or gape stupidly
• Czech: civět — to stare conspicuously
• Finnish: töllöttää — to stare conspicuously
• Finnish: toljottaa — to stare conspicuously
• Georgian: მიშტერება (mišṭereba) — to stare conspicuously
• Georgian: მიჩერება (mičereba) — to stare conspicuously
• Serbo-Croatian: buljiti — to stare conspicuously
• Serbo-Croatian: zuriti — to stare conspicuously
• Spanish: sapear — to stare conspicuously