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Definition of Gawpus
1. a silly person [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gawpus
Literary usage of Gawpus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"What are you glowering at, you young gawpus 1 Tickler. Downright, absolute nonsense.
Have you the vanity to believe, lad, that you spout like the Tweed ? ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"... I used aye to admire you, years sin syne ; and never doubted you wad come out
wi' some wark, ae day or ither, that wad gar the gawpus glower. ..."
3. Noetes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1854)
"... I used aye to admire you, years sin syne ; and never doubted you wad come out
wi' some wark, ae day or ither, that wad gar the gawpus glower. ..."
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