Words: gawk [AHED]

PRONUNCIATION: gôk
NOUN: An awkward, loutish person; an oaf.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: gawked, gawk·ing, gawks
To stare or gape stupidly. See synonyms at gaze.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps alteration (influenced by gawk hand, left hand) of obsolete gaw, to gape, from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse ga, to heed.