Thesaurus / gawk
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Ere Alfred could reply, a big gawk chimed in with: "By the dust on their britches laigs I callerate they didn't ride much."
WATCH YOURSELF GO BYAL. G. FIELDSeveral spectators stopped venting their wrath on the unfortunate man in the ring to gawk at the couple.
THY ROCKS AND RILLSROBERT ERNEST GILBERTWell, Weener, are you going to stand there and gawk for the next twentyfour hours or are you coming back with us?
GREENER THAN YOU THINKWARD MOOREThe silly old gawk has got hold of your father and has actually made the old man believe that you are bewitched!
THE CHRISTIANHALL CAINEShe was tall and lean—a college friend had described her exactly as "half goddess and half gawk."
WALKING SHADOWSALFRED NOYESHe looked like an educated gawk, a rural genius, a pied piper of motley followers.
CHILDREN OF THE MARKET PLACEEDGAR LEE MASTERS"Don't gawk," said Marcus, restraining his own tendency to gaze around in bewilderment.
MEZZEROW LOVES COMPANYFLOYD L. WALLACEYoung Absalom is a big, overgrown gawk of fourteen with no brain for anything but mischief.
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE OPEN ROADHILDEGARD G. FREYA great gawk of a fellow, with eyes that always look as if he were in the middle of next week!
THE IMPERIALIST(A.K.A. MRS. EVERARD COTES) SARA JEANNETTE DUNCANCheese, instead of raising a hoof in my defense, dropped his ears and looked complacently on my animated heap like a country gawk.
ON A DONKEY'S HURRICANE DECKR. PITCHER WOODWARDWORDS RELATED TO GAWK
- admire
- attend
- behold
- beware
- consider
- contemplate
- eye
- feast one's eyes
- flash
- focus
- gape
- gawk
- gaze
- get a load of
- glance
- glower
- goggle
- heed
- inspect
- mark
- mind
- note
- notice
- observe
- ogle
- peep
- peer
- pore over
- read
- regard
- rubberneck
- scan
- scout
- scrutinize
- see
- spot
- spy
- stare
- study
- survey
- take a gander
- take in the sights
- tend
- view
- watch
- admired
- attended
- beheld
- bewared
- considered
- contemplated
- eyed
- feasted one's eyes
- flashed
- focused
- gaped
- gawked
- gazed
- glanced
- glowered
- goggled
- got a load of
- heeded
- inspected
- marked
- minded
- noted
- noticed
- observed
- ogled
- peeped
- peered
- pored over
- read
- regarded
- rubbernecked
- saw
- scanned
- scouted
- scrutinized
- spied
- spotted
- stared
- studied
- surveyed
- tended
- took a gander
- took in the sights
- viewed
- watched
- be apprised of
- beam
- behold
- catch a glimpse of
- catch sight of
- clock
- contemplate
- descry
- detect
- discern
- distinguish
- espy
- examine
- eye
- flash
- gape
- gawk
- gaze
- get a load of
- glare
- glimpse
- heed
- identify
- inspect
- lay eyes on
- look
- look at
- make out
- mark
- mind
- note
- notice
- observe
- pay attention to
- peek
- peep
- peer
- peg
- penetrate
- pierce
- recognize
- regard
- remark
- scan
- scope
- scrutinize
- sight
- spot
- spy
- stare
- survey
- take notice
- view
- watch
- witness
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