English-Thai Dictionary

gawk

N คนโง่ (คำ ดูถูก  คน ซุ่มซ่าม  kon-ngo

 

gawk

VI มอง อย่างประหลาดใจ (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ  มอง อย่าง โง่ๆ  จ้อง อย่าง ไม่ เกรงใจ  stare gape glare mong-yang-pra-lad-jai

 

gawk at

PHRV จ้องมอง ด้วย ท่าทาง โง่ๆ (มัก มี อาการ อ้าปากค้าง  จ้องมอง อ้าปากค้าง  จ้องมอง ด้วย ความสงสัย  gawp at gape at gaze at goggle at stare at jong-mong-duai-ta-tang-ngo-ngo

 

gawky

ADJ ซุ่มซ่าม  งุ่มง่าม  เก้งก้าง  ungainly gangly graceful sum-sam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAWK

n. 1. A cuckoo.
2. A fool; a simpleton. [In both senses, it is retained in Scotland. ]

 

GAWKY

a.Foolish; awkward; clumsy; clownish. [In this sense it is retained in vulgar use in America. ]

 

GAWKY

n.A stupid, ignorant, awkward fellow.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GAWK

Gawk, n. Etym: [OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel. gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS. géac cuckoo, Sw. gök, Dan. giög ]

 

1. A cuckoo. Johnson.

 

2. A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. Carlyle.

 

GAWK

GAWK Gawk, v. i.

 

Defn: To act like a gawky.

 

GAWKY

Gawk "y, a. [Compar. Gawkier; superl. Gawkiest.]

 

Defn: Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gawk

gawk |gôk ɡɔk | ▶verb [ no obj. ] stare openly and stupidly: they were gawking at some pinup. ▶noun an awkward or shy person. DERIVATIVES gawk er noun, gawk ish adjective ORIGIN late 17th cent. (as a noun ): perhaps related to obsolete gaw ‘to gaze, ’ from Old Norse gá ‘heed. ’

 

gawky

gawk y |ˈgôkē ˈɡɔki | ▶adjective ( gawkier, gawkiest ) nervously awkward and ungainly: a gawky teenager. DERIVATIVES gawk i ly |-kəlē |adverb, gawk i ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

gawk

gawk |gɔːk | ▶verb [ no obj. ] stare openly and stupidly: they were gawking at some pin-up. ▶noun an awkward or shy person. DERIVATIVES gawker noun, gawkish adjective ORIGIN late 17th cent. (as a noun ): perhaps related to obsolete gaw ‘to gaze ’, from Old Norse gá ‘heed ’.

 

gawky

gawky |ˈgɔːki | ▶adjective ( gawkier, gawkiest ) nervously awkward and ungainly: a gawky teenager. DERIVATIVES gawkily adverb, gawkiness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

gawk

gawk verb informal I somehow managed not to gawk at his gorgeous roommate: gape, goggle, gaze, ogle, stare, stare open-mouthed; informal rubberneck.

 

gawky

gawky adjective how can you convince a fourteen-year-old boy that he will not always be so gawky? awkward, ungainly, gangling, maladroit, clumsy, klutzy, inelegant, uncoordinated, graceless, ungraceful; unconfident, unsophisticated. ANTONYMS graceful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

gawk

gawk verb he gawked unashamedly at the beautiful girl: gape, goggle, gaze, ogle, stare, stare stupidly, stare open-mouthed, stare in wonder, look fixedly, look vacantly; informal rubberneck; Brit. informal gawp.

 

gawky

gawky adjective she had been a thin, gawky adolescent: awkward, ungainly, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, gauche, maladroit, inept, bumbling, blundering, lumbering; socially awkward, socially unsure, unpolished, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, unworldly; nervous, shy, bashful; Brit. nervy. ANTONYMS graceful; adroit.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gawk

gawk /ɡɔːk /名詞 C 気の利かない人 ; のろま, まぬけ .動詞 自動詞 ｟くだけて ｠ «…に » ぽかんと見とれる «at » .g á wk er 名詞

 

gawky

gawk y /ɡɔ́ːki /形容詞 気の利かない ; 内気な ; 不器用な ; ぶざまな, 不格好な .g á wk i ly 副詞 g á wk i ness 名詞