Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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.