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Definition of Gawking
1. gawk [v] - See also: gawk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gawking
Literary usage of Gawking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1785 We.. . .do little else than sit in the chimney-corner,.... gawking at each
... (NED) 1817 All with their wives, and some with their gawking offspring. ..."
2. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"GAWK. To stare; to act without purpose. " A fond, gawking fellah ... Went gawking
abart an' duing nowt awalt' blessed morning I" GAWKY. Left-handed. ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1886)
"The man may be reported for looking around the shop, or gawking about; the guard
may say, I have spoken to him two or three times before, and he does not ..."
4. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"I overtook the Paladin on the road and let him have my company the rest of the
way, although he did not want it and said so; and while we were gawking and ..."
5. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"stacked up here on top of this gallows, in these idiotic blankets, and two hundred
and fifty well-dressed men and women down here gawking up at us and not ..."
6. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"It's a hard highway to drive, because you're gawking so much. Skagway Air, -a
907-766-3233, LA.B. Flying Service, is 907-766-2222, and Wings of Alaska, ..."
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