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gowk

noun
/ɡaʊk/

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Likely from Middle English coke, colk (“the core or heart of an apple or onion, pith”), from Old English *colc (“the gullet, esophagus; pit of the stomach; trench, pit, gully”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulkaz, *kulukaz (“gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to devour, swallow, gulp; throat, gullet”). Possibly a doublet of coke.

  1. derived from *gʷel-✻ — “to devour, swallow, gulp; throat, gullet”
  2. inherited from *kulukaz✻ — “gullet”
  3. inherited from *kolk✻
  4. inherited from *colc✻ — “the gullet, esophagus; pit of the stomach; trench, pit, gully”
  5. inherited from colk — “the core or heart of an apple or onion, pith”

Definitions

  1. A cuckoo.

  2. A fool.

    • "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper.
    • "What does it look like?" "Like...like..." Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, "like a wogle-stone, thou gowk."
    • God has sent me gowks for secretaries.

  3. To make foolish

    To make foolish; to stupefy.

    • look how the man stands as he were gowk'd
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. An apple core.

    2. The central part of any thing

      The central part of any thing; pith; core.

    3. The hard centre of a boil or sore.

    4. The yolk of an egg.

    5. The inner part of a haystack.

    6. To retch

      To retch; vomit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA