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語源

Variation of gape.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: gôp, IPA: /ɡɔːp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɡɔp/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɡɑp/
• 韻: -ɔːp

動詞

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

1. (chiefly British) 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.”

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The lady looked around to see that there were hundreds of sets of eyes staring back at her. Even the screaming toddlers had momentarily stopped screaming and were gawping.

派生語

• gawper

名詞

gawp (plural gawps)

1. (British) 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.

アナグラム

• GWAP, pawg, PAWG, WPGA, gwap