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Gowk   Listen
noun
Gowk  n.  (Zool.)
1.
The European cuckoo; called also gawky.
2.
A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.





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"Gowk" Quotes from Famous Books



... take their chance. And you'd Conceit enough of Jim, at one time—proud As a pipit that's hatched a cuckoo: and if the gowk Were half as handsome as I—you ken, yourself, You needed no coaxing: I wasted little breath Whistling to heel: you came at the ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... wonderful to see how things come round. When the talk was about the shanking of their heughs, and a paper to get folk to take shares in them, was carried through the circumjacent parishes, it was thought a gowk's errand; but no sooner was the coal reached, but up sprung such a traffic, that it was a godsend to the parish, and the opening of a trade and commerce, that has, to use an old byword, brought gold in gowpins amang us. From that time my stipend has been on the regular increase, and ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt
... explosive. He called her a little ass and a gowk and a stupid idiot for doing such a thing, and she did not reproach ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner


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