gawk at

gawk at (someone or something)

To stare at someone or something in surprise or stupefaction. We gawked at the firemen as they rushed into the burning building. I could only gawk at Mary when she told me she was pregnant.

gawk at someone or something

to stare at someone or something, obviously and awkwardly. Why are you standing there, gawking at me? The tourists stood at the foot of the mountain and gawked at the top.

See also: gawk

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

gawk
gawk at (someone or something)
gape
gape at
gape at (someone or something)
goggle at
goggle at (someone or something)
boggle at
boggle at (something)
stare at

References in classic literature

Sandy said there would be a monument put up there, where Moses and Esau had stood, with the date and circumstances, and all about the whole business, and travellers would come for thousands of years and gawk at it, and climb over it, and scribble their names on it.

Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven

After two decades, we all still gawk at her for a reason - there's never a normal, dull moment.

REALITY show stalwart Katie []; Sara Wallis on TV Follow Sara on @sarawallis

At the foot of the street was Union Station, where we arrived on trains from less sophisticated suburbs to gawk at the sinful city.

Ten dead - but it could have been worse

This tragedy is exactly why PETA urges families to stay away from facilities that display animals as living exhibits for humans to gawk at.

Captivity leads to suffering and death

SUPERMODEL and philanthropist Petra Nemcova was among the guests who gathered to gawk at the new amenities just opened at 30 Park Place.

Supermodel and philanthropist Petra Nemcova

Airline passengers bound for the Antarctic Circle couldn't help but gawk at the Aurora Australis, which put on a spectacular show last Friday.

WATCH: Passengers film Southern Lights across Antarctic Circle

It's inconceivable that they would ever capture wild animals and place them in enclosures only to gawk at them, and then let them starve to death during food shortages.

Boo to zoos

In her cage she waits small and barred, carrying torchlight, daring us while we pretend not to gawk at the white-round plate other face.

The Last Hunger Artist

we gawk at circling hawks, stuff ourselves with bread and sex.

Stoics

All await with abated breaths for Veena Malik's heartbreak over Sheik Sahib's refusal, while they equally gawk at possible fulfilling of Sheikh Sahib's whim by Prime Minister of allowing Sheikh to administer polio drops down his (PM's) gullet.

Sheikh Rashid rejects Veena Malik's sweet tea party

A tour bus company that offered customers a chance to gawk at ghetto neighborhoods in the South Bronx has stopped the rides after severe backlash from the community.

Ghetto Tours Stopped In The Bronx, 'Real Bronx Tours' Brought Tourists To 'Pick-Pocketing Parks'

We can gawk at a person, a bird or a flowering bush and miss the inherent beauty, but when we change our looking into gazing that beauty comes home to our soul.

In praise of gazing

(SUP) is old hat, and there's something fresh to gawk at when you go to the beach: SUP yoga.

Newest water-spots craze

When former child actor Jackie (Sarah Stouffer) goes away to college she discovers she's unable to connect with her fellow students who gawk at the campus "celeb." Feeling like an outsider, she is drawn to Catherine (Allison McAtee), a gorgeous, sophisticated--and almost predato-rily aggressive--psychology professor with a reputation for seducing her female students.

Bloomington

This is so selfish to do this, just so we can gawk at them.

Don't panda to this cruel plan; Yourview

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