gawk
Speech parts
1. gawk - Noun
2. gawk - Verb
Meaning
A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.
To act like a gawky.
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If they've really caught the #GoldenStateKiller I hope I get to visit him. Not to gloat or gawk - to ask him the questions that @TrueCrimeDiary wanted answered in her "Letter To An Old Man” at the end of #IllBeGoneInTheDark.
She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning.
FreeBSD before version 5.0 also included gawk version 3.0, but subsequent versions of FreeBSD use BWK awk to avoid the more restrictive GNU General Public License (GPL), as well as for its technical characteristics.
And we have to freeze frame long enough to gawk at the terrible outfit on Frumpiest Girl: it’s 70s-style gym shorts with white piping, and a too-small grey tshirt with two palm trees screened over her boobs like groping frond-hands.