Definitions for gowks

gowks gowk

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

Gowks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in gowks (gkosw).

Definitions for gowks

noun

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

Origin of gowks

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

Examples for gowks

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

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

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

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

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

Late vernal equinoctial gales contemporary with the gowk or cuckoo.

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 gowks
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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