Recent Examples on the WebTwin columns once housed in trousers or board shorts have undergone miniskirt-ification, now daring you not to gawp as men’s hemlines rise and rise.—Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 June 2024 Troy Iwata found a guy who stans Joe Biden and just gawped at him in wide-eyed disbelief.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2024 Although the moon’s shadow will arrive like clockwork and bring eerie darkness on schedule, to gawp at the sun’s corona requires a clear sky.—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Like the passengers gawping at the flames, the reader cannot look away.—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023 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.—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).—The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018 Apps such as Facebook and YouTube are fine-tuned to keep users gawping.—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.—Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
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Word History
Etymology
English dialect gawp to yawn, gape, from obsolete galp, from Middle English
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