{
  "gawk":{
    "antonyms":[
      "blink",
      "gape",
      "gawp",
      "gaze",
      "goggle",
      "peer",
      "rubberneck",
      "stare"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a clumsy stupid person : lout":[],
      ": to gape or stare stupidly":[
        "gawked at the fish in the aquarium"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "thought that the linebackers were dumb gawks until he got to know them better",
      "Verb",
      "a crowd of gawking tourists",
      "couldn't help gawking at the exotically dressed guests in the hotel lobby",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response. \u2014 Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "People in the tavern gawk as Jamie interrogates his aunt, accusing her of purchasing a shop for Fergus to print propaganda. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "With its cool look and flashy two-tone color schemes, folks will take gawk at the RAV4 Prime at the stoplight. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 30 Oct. 2021",
      "People take deep breaths to inhale fresh air, gawk at the wildlife and rock climb. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Mar. 2021",
      "This is pretty typical of my Chicago unrealistic gawk -searching. \u2014 Rebecca Makkai, Curbed , 25 Feb. 2021",
      "The reader doesn\u2019t gawk at her tragedy and resilience. \u2014 Karen Valby, New York Times , 4 Feb. 2020",
      "Even in the drowsy predawn morning, onlookers stopped to gawk . \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 28 Oct. 2019",
      "By Saturday afternoon, reporters and photographers loitered outside the restaurant, as did people who had wandered over to gawk . \u2014 Sarah Murray, latimes.com , 24 June 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Lora Johnson and her sister bypassed the slot machines and blackjack tables and didn't even stop to gawk at the cake vending machine on their way through The Cromwell Hotel & Casino. \u2014 USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "This urge to gawk at the unspoken parts of war reminded me of my second deployment as a Marine in southern Afghanistan in 2010, where there was plenty of killing and dying but not on a scale comparable to Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
      "The chance to gawk at the splayed viscera of other people\u2019s lives would surely attract viewers no matter who occupied the therapist\u2019s chair. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "Bruce Paddock, who bought his first Riva Aquarama in 2009, recalls going to a waterside restaurant near his home on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., and watching the diners flock outside to gawk . \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "Students and Rollins staff members came in droves to the campus greenroom starting Monday to gawk , giggle and hold their noses up at the putrid-smelling flower. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "No one wants to end up with a drink that tastes like exhaust from the tour buses dropping people off to gawk at the cherry trees. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Bazzana is another player causing teammates to stop and gawk . \u2014 Joe Freeman, oregonlive , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "Chants and speeches were intermittently drowned out by the jackhammers at a nearby construction site, while tourists stopped to gawk and snap photos, and a steady stream of car horns droned their support down Seventh Avenue. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 8 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1757, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1785, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps alteration of obsolete gaw to stare":"Verb",
      "probably from English dialect gawk left-handed":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u022fk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "clod",
      "clodhopper",
      "hulk",
      "lout",
      "lubber",
      "lug",
      "lump",
      "Neanderthal",
      "oaf",
      "palooka"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072817",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gawkhammer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": awkward , clumsy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "gawk entry 2 + English dialect hammer clumsy person":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u014dk-",
      "\u02c8g\u00e4k-",
      "\u02c8g\u0259u\u0307k\u02ccham\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175253",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "gawkiness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "coordinated",
      "graceful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": awkward , clumsy":[
        "a gawky adolescent"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the stiff, gawky gait of a newborn colt",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The moment for raabs\u2014these gawky , uncoiffed survivors of our soul-leaching winters\u2014is short. \u2014 Jonathan Kauffman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "While the 11th-generation Civic has a far more streamlined body than its gawky predecessor, Honda kept the underpinnings mostly the same\u2014and that's a good thing. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Anjana Vasan is mesmerizing as Amina, a gawky , lovelorn scientist who unexpectedly ends up as the lead guitarist for an all-women Muslim punk band, Lady Parts. \u2014 The New Yorker , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "For those of us who grew up with her cooking shows on public television \u2013 a TV career that began in 1963 and lasted for decades \u2013 seeing her here in all her gawky eccentricity is good for the soul. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "The way Dunst scrunches her eyebrows and speaks in her highest register, never abandoning her character\u2019s gawky sincerity, is a comedic gold mine. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Singer Luke Bryan, the gawky host of this year\u2019s CMAs, has invited Wallen to appear onstage with him in concert recently. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Other raids on art history include the pilferage of a gawky interstitial passage\u2014a shapeless shape\u2014from Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald\u2019s ferocious crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16). \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "His 6-foot-6 height, which affords him a better view of where the ball must go, would be a detriment if Herbert were gawky and ponderous. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1759, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "gawk entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u022f-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "awkward",
      "clumsy",
      "gawkish",
      "graceless",
      "klutzy",
      "uncoordinated",
      "ungainly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140702",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gawkish":{
    "antonyms":[
      "coordinated",
      "graceful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gawky":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the kind of gawkish girl who trips while receiving her high school diploma"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1840, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "gawk entry 1 + -ish":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u022f-kish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "awkward",
      "clumsy",
      "gawky",
      "graceless",
      "klutzy",
      "uncoordinated",
      "ungainly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210023",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gawkishness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "coordinated",
      "graceful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gawky":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the kind of gawkish girl who trips while receiving her high school diploma"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1840, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "gawk entry 1 + -ish":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u022f-kish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "awkward",
      "clumsy",
      "gawky",
      "graceless",
      "klutzy",
      "uncoordinated",
      "ungainly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000301",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gawky":{
    "antonyms":[
      "coordinated",
      "graceful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": awkward , clumsy":[
        "a gawky adolescent"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the stiff, gawky gait of a newborn colt",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The moment for raabs\u2014these gawky , uncoiffed survivors of our soul-leaching winters\u2014is short. \u2014 Jonathan Kauffman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "While the 11th-generation Civic has a far more streamlined body than its gawky predecessor, Honda kept the underpinnings mostly the same\u2014and that's a good thing. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Anjana Vasan is mesmerizing as Amina, a gawky , lovelorn scientist who unexpectedly ends up as the lead guitarist for an all-women Muslim punk band, Lady Parts. \u2014 The New Yorker , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "For those of us who grew up with her cooking shows on public television \u2013 a TV career that began in 1963 and lasted for decades \u2013 seeing her here in all her gawky eccentricity is good for the soul. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "The way Dunst scrunches her eyebrows and speaks in her highest register, never abandoning her character\u2019s gawky sincerity, is a comedic gold mine. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Singer Luke Bryan, the gawky host of this year\u2019s CMAs, has invited Wallen to appear onstage with him in concert recently. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Other raids on art history include the pilferage of a gawky interstitial passage\u2014a shapeless shape\u2014from Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald\u2019s ferocious crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16). \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "His 6-foot-6 height, which affords him a better view of where the ball must go, would be a detriment if Herbert were gawky and ponderous. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1759, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "gawk entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u022f-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "awkward",
      "clumsy",
      "gawkish",
      "graceless",
      "klutzy",
      "uncoordinated",
      "ungainly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103306",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gawp":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": gawk":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "tourists in London gawping at royalty",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Indeed, when William came to Marlborough for interschool events, Kate was more interested in playing hockey than waiting at the goal line on the hockey field above Wedgewood, where some of the girls congregated to gawp at the prince. \u2014 Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire , 23 Feb. 2019",
      "Indeed, when William came to Marlborough for interschool events, Kate was more interested in playing hockey than waiting at the goal line on the hockey field above Wedgewood, where some of the girls congregated to gawp at the prince. \u2014 Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire , 23 Feb. 2019",
      "Viewership of pricey cable channels is in structural decline, as people spend more time on services like Netflix (or gawping at their phones). \u2014 The Economist , 18 Jan. 2018",
      "Apps such as Facebook and YouTube are fine-tuned to keep users gawping . \u2014 The Economist , 14 Dec. 2017",
      "Less hands-on museum-goers can gawp at sprawling, fantastical jungles and cities created by amateur Lego virtuosos all over the world and rebuilt here at the mothership. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
      "The Phantom is a superb place to spend time, but locomotion adds little sensation beyond the fact that the view through the windows of gawping mortals starts to scroll. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 12 Oct. 2017",
      "Residents peer from their balconies, filming a club of gawping journalists stationed outside. \u2014 Jack Moore, Newsweek , 6 June 2017",
      "Her exploitation is laid bare when a tour guide arrives at the witch camp with gawping holidaymakers in tow. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 29 May 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1855, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "English dialect gawp to yawn, gape, from obsolete galp , from Middle English":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u00e4p",
      "\u02c8g\u022fp"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blink",
      "gape",
      "gawk",
      "gaze",
      "goggle",
      "peer",
      "rubberneck",
      "stare"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174936",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gawsie":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": good-sized : presenting an imposing and ample appearance":[
        "the house \u2026 gawcey and substantial",
        "\u2014 G. D. Brown"
      ],
      ": well filled out : in good condition":[],
      ": well-fed and hearty looking : plump and cheerful":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121619",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "GAW":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gall entry 2 sense 1a":[],
      ": a small channel cut for drainage purposes : furrow , trench":[],
      "guaranteed annual wage":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u0227",
      "\u02c8g\u022f"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of gall entry 2":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-225202"
  },
  "Gawain":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a knight of the Round Table and nephew of King Arthur":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "g\u0259-\u02c8w\u0101n",
      "\u02c8gau\u0307-\u0259n",
      "\u02c8g\u00e4-\u02ccw\u0101n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-231103"
  },
  "gaw":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gall entry 2 sense 1a":[],
      ": a small channel cut for drainage purposes : furrow , trench":[],
      "guaranteed annual wage":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u0227",
      "\u02c8g\u022f"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of gall entry 2":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-235012"
  }
}