Gawk
Gawk (gak) , noun
[Old English gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icelandic gaukr cuckoo; akin to Old High German gouh, German gauch cuckoo, fool, Anglo-Saxon géac cuckoo, Swedish gok, Danish giog]
1.
A cuckoo. — Johnson
2.
A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. — Carlyle
Gawk , intransitive verb
1.
To act like a gawky.
2.
To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; -- usually used with at.