gawk : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gawk	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for gawk
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gawk n an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk] v look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape, gawp, gawk]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gawk \Gawk\, n. [OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel. gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS. g[82]ac cuckoo, Sw. g[94]k, Dan. gi[94]g] 1. A cuckoo. --Johnson. 2. A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gawk \Gawk\, v. i. To act like a gawky.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
gawk {GNU} {awk}. Gawk is a superset of standard awk and includes some {Plan 9} features. David Trueman and Arnold Robbins of {Georgia Institute of Technology} were developing it in 1993. It has been ported to {Unix}, {MS-DOS}, {Macintosh}, and {Archimedes}. Latest version: 2.15.3, as of 1993-11-08. Available by {FTP} from your nearest {GNU archive site}. {Mac version (ftp://archive.umich.edu/mac/utilities/developerhelps/macgawk2.11.cpt.hqx)}. (2000-10-21)