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plural gawks
A cuckoo. examples
A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person. quotations examples
A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
1855, Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review
third-person singular simple present gawks, present participle gawking, simple past and past participle gawked
To stare or gape stupidly. examples
To stare conspicuously. examples
(colloquial, vulgar) To suck. examples