Definitions for gawk

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IPA: /gɔk/

Gawk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in gawk (agkw).

Definitions for gawk

noun

  1. an awkward, foolish person.

verb (used without object)

  1. to stare stupidly; gape:

Origin of gawk

1775-85; apparently representing OE word meaning fool, equivalent to ga(gol) foolish + -oc -ock; used attributively in gawk hand, gallock hand left hand

Examples for gawk

Rather than be instructional or cautionary, the show turns its subjects into feasting zoo objects for audiences to gawk at.

"Lave it to me," said a rough voice, and Billy the gawk stepped out.

It would definitely be wrong for TLC to encourage us to gawk at these men but their story is worth investigating nonetheless.

In the library and parlor, he confesses he is as a gawk or one dumb.

And as for that maypole of a daughter, she's nothing but a gawk.

Bridget may have been a gawk, but she did two things which were not gawkish.

It made me laugh to see the gawk skulking along in the rear.

Of those snapping pictures, almost all were locals who had paused to gawk at the strange sight.

gawk at the unparalleled treasures of the State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace.

More than 50,000 cars passed along Quiet Dell Road so people could gawk.

Word Value for gawk
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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