verb (used without object)
- gawp.
verb (used without object) Chiefly Northern U.S.
- to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
verb
- a variant spelling of gawp
verb
- (intr often foll by at) British slang to stare stupidly; gape
“fool, simpleton,” 1825, perhaps from the verb meaning “to yawn, gape” (as in astonishment), which is attested from 1680s, a dialectal survival of galp (c.1300), which is related to yelp or gape.