gawp

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Variation of gape.

• (UK) enPR: gôp, IPA^(key): /ɡɔːp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːp

gawp (third-person singular simple present gawps, present participle gawping, simple past and past participle gawped)

1. (Chiefly Britain) To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
   • 1961, John Steinbeck, Molly Morgan‎:

     “I have tickets for the train to New York tonight. Hurry up, Molly! Don’t stand there gawping.”

• gawper

gawp (plural gawps)

1. (Britain) A stupefied or amazed stare.
   • 2019, The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget:

     Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.

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