Definitions for gowk

gowk gowk

Spelling: [gouk, gohk]
IPA: /gaʊk, goʊk/

Gowk 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 21 anagrams from letters in gowk (gkow).

Definitions for gowk

noun

  1. British Dialect. cuckoo.
  2. a fool or simpleton.

Origin of gowk

1275-1325; Middle English goke Old Norse gaukr; cognate with Old English gēac, German Gauch

Examples for gowk

In France the party fooled is called un poisson d'avril, 'an April fish'; in Scotland, a 'gowk', or cuckoo.

It was no more an essay than a twig is a tree, for the gowk had stuck in the middle of his second page.

It's no use just to be a good husband to her: any gowk can be that.

Late vernal equinoctial gales contemporary with the gowk or cuckoo.

gowk's-spittle, The frothy matter frequently seen on the leaves of plants, S.

But the story of the Cuckoo has made its local name the "gowk" synonymous with an inhabitant of the vale.

Ye hinnae as muckle o' the Sicht as wad let ye see when Leevie was makin' a gowk o' ye to gar ye hang oot signals for her auld jo.

Word Value for gowk
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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