- 1呆看、瞪著看
To gawk is to look at something for a long time in an open, foolish way — as if you have forgotten to close your mouth. You gawk at a crash on the road, at a famous person in the street, at a strange shop window. The word is in a small, everyday way: it says the looking is rude or stupid, not careful or polite. It is informal. Stare is the plainer neighbour; gawk adds the sense that you look a bit silly while you do it. As a noun, a gawk can mean an awkward person who stares like that, but the verb is the sense people use most. The verb probably comes from an old dialect word gaw, “to stare,” with a -k on the end, as in talk. Another old noun gawk / gowk meant a cuckoo, and then a fool; that may colour the “stupid looking” feel, but the looking-word is the one you need here.
組成The verb is probably dialect gaw (“to stare”) + -k (as in talk, stalk). An older noun gawk, from a word for “cuckoo,” meant a fool; that may sit behind the “looking stupid” tone.
同家族的字
- gawkyawkward and clumsy; built on the same gawk- stem
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gawknoun詞源 1/ɡɔːk/
- 1
A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
- His morning prey he craveth; So crowed the gawk of carrion⁶ […] (6) Gawk of carrion = [kenning for] raven.
- Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.
- 2
A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
- A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
gawkverb詞源 2/ɡɔːk/
- 1
To stare or gape stupidly.
- 2
To stare conspicuously.
- 3
vulgarTo suck.
gawknoun詞源 2/ɡɔːk/
- 1
A conspicuous or stupid stare or gape; an instance of gawking.
- ... the gawks and gapes of townsfolk as stares of admiration.
- ... the gawks and gapes of those who'd expected him to be long dead,[…]
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