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Definition of Gowks

Gowk
Gowk Gowk, v. t. [See Gawk.] To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Gowk
Gowk Gowk, n. [See Gawk.] (Zo["o]l.) 1. The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky. 2. A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

Meaning of Gowks from wikipedia

- range.[verification needed] Old folk names include "mire snipe", "horse gowk", "heather bleat", and the variant spelling "snite". See snipe for other...
- Gowk (Persian: گوك, also Romanized as Govak) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the...
- of "hunt the gowk", gowk being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "gowking day", or Là Ruith...
- The name gowk stane (English: cuckoo stone or fool's stone) has been applied to certain standing stones and glacial erratics in Scotland, often found in...
- people of Coggeshall, Es****; the "carles" of Austwick, Yorkshire; the "gowks" of Gordon, Berwickshire; and for many centuries the charge of folly has...
- people of Coggeshall, Es****, the "carles" of Austwick, Yorkshire, the "gowks" of Gordon, Berwickshire, and for many centuries the charge of folly has...
- megalithic tomb Fulacht fiadh – Burned mound from the Bronze Age in Ireland Gowk stane – Standing stones and glacial erratics in Scotland Henge – Type of...
- Mice and Men, Private Lives, Oleanna, Sunset Song, The Silver Darlings, The Gowk Storm, Waiting for Godot, Dancing at Lughnasa, Oedipus Tyrannos and A Midsummer...
- Young BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama 10 January 2005 – 21 January 2005 The Gowk Storm Innkeeper's Wife David Ian Neville BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama 31...
- based on this. In Scotland, gowk stanes (cuckoo stones) sometimes ****ociated with the arrival of the first cuckoo of spring. "Gowk" is an old name for the...