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▪ I. gawp, v.|gɔːp|
Also 8 Sc. gap, 8–9 gaup.
[dial. survival of galp v.]
intr. To yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment. to gawp up: to devour. Also = gawk v. Hence ˈgawping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 39 Methought I sat enthroned in the Quire, Where crowds of Choristers my Grace admire; There blest the gawping throng. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1718) 6 This is Sneezing; to which frequently is join'd Gauping or Retching. 1728Ramsay Fables & T., Daft Bargain 12 Syne till't he fell, and seem'd richt yap His mealtith quickly up to gawp. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 18 Syk is the nature o' that grot To echoe sae, e'en should there not Be gaupin body on the spot. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., To Gaup or Gauve, ‘He gaup'd and gloor'd at all he saw’, gaped with wonder at new sights. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Gawp, to open eyes and mouth in stupid wonder. 1915D. H. Lawrence Rainbow 19 There he sat stubbornly in his corner at the Red Lion, smoking and musing and occasionally lifting his beer-pot, and saying nothing, for all the world like a gorping farm-labourer. Ibid. v. 121 The little crowd at the gate gorps and stretches. 1930R. Campbell Adamastor 43 Funnelled with roaring mouths that gorp like cod. 1942D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) vii. 175 You sit there gawping at him like some little goon. 1952J. Cannan Body in Beck vii. 134 I'm here to get on with the job, not to gawp at the clients. 1959J. Burke Echo of Barbara v. 42 Flauntin' yourself before a lot of gawpin' idiots. 1961J. I. M. Stewart Man who won Pools 81 The budgerigars in the windows..must be gorping at them. 1969― Cucumber Sandwiches 39 He would bring down mediums and other psychically well-accredited persons to gorp and gape at that lake.
Add: ˈgawper n., one who gawps.
1965W. Soyinka Road 11 Do you take me for a common gawper after misery? 1976J. O'Connor Eleventh Commandment viii. 97 When we arrived at Portsmouth dockyards..the quayside was full of gawpers. 1984Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 267/3 Gawpers have not hesitated to come and stare.
▪ II. gawp, n. dial. and colloq.|gɔːp|
Also gaup.
[f. prec.]
A fool or simpleton. (See also gawpus.)
1825–80[see gawpy]. 1926L. Coutts Lyrics 41 I've affin seen conceit in men But ee're the warst! Ye gawp! 1937L. A. G. Strong Swift Shadow 155 Standing by like gawps to see bloody murder done. 1960R. Williams Border Country 95 Country's not going to be run by a lot of young gawps. |
