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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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To make a, booby of one); to stupefy.

[Obs.]

B. Jonson.

Noun.

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(Zool.)

The European cuckoo; – called also gawky.

A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

Noun.

[See Gawk.]

gowk ‎(plural gowks)

(Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo.
A fool.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
  "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper.
- 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
  God has sent me gowks for secretaries.

gowk ‎(third-person singular simple present gowks, present participle gowking, simple past and past participle gowked)

To make foolish; to stupefy.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)