gawp

IPA: gˈɔp

noun

  • (Britain) A stupefied or amazed stare.

verb

  • (Chiefly Britain) To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
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Examples of "gawp" in Sentences

  • I love that word gawp, not one is usage over here.
  • We all queued up to go and gawp at him; he looked like the Elephant Man.
  • She was frightened, frightened of these strange children being brought to gawp and stare at her.
  • He'll be going home after the SRBs are fished out of the ocean and sent back for refurbishment.:: gawp::
  • While another Mumsnet user dropped by with a cake, to "gawp" at their celebrity visitor, the couple's teenage children were less impressed.
  • When Forbes first started to draw up its power league, the magazine probably imagined that it would induce readers to gasp with fear or gawp with respect.
  • Why bother campaigning to legalise drugs when you could use your own airline to fly self-absorbed dopehead depressives out to Africa to gawp at poor people?
  • But someone clearly objects to rubberneckers such as me coming to gawp at Hitler's legacy: on dozens of the boarded-up windows, someone has spraypainted "Touris raus!"

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