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Definition of Gaups
1. gaup [v] - See also: gaup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaups
Literary usage of Gaups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Vor. dial. GAUPEN. Two handfulls. Hence, u ¡mi» derate quantity. North. gaups.
A simpleton. South. GAURE. To stare ; to look vacantly. ..."
2. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1910)
"... we'll him expose, 0 'er the whole world his deeds disclose, II ell now gaups
wide to take him in, N ow he is ripe, ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Var. d. (2) i. Noisy talk. Derby. (3) v. To stretch the limbs nervously. GAUPEN, ».
Two handfuls; an immoderate quantity. North. gaups, ». A simpleton. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"gaups. A simpleton. South. GAURE. To stare ; to look vacantly. Chaucer. Also, to
cry or shout. GAUSTER. To laugh loudly ; to be noi*J-; to swagger. Craven. ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"... a young simpleton ; gaup, to gape or stare, gaups, a simpleton.—Hal. The origin
is probably preserved in Gael, gob, a beak, ..."
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