2. Noun. (British) The action of the verb gawp. ¹
3. Adjective. (British) That gawps or gawp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gawping
1. gawp [v] - See also: gawp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gawping
Literary usage of Gawping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Not the Picters—they didn't count much, but the pick o' the fan was to see The
Swells gawping round at his scratches, like lunatics puzzled and flustered, ..."
2. Greek Literature (1912)
"... the bumpkin Corydon, at the foot of the hill tending their sheep and goats,
Battus bantering Corydon the while with vacant gawping seriousness; ..."
3. At the Sign of the Dollar by Wallace Irwin (1905)
"Lo! the zinc-toothed, gawping maw of Wall Street shall be broken, Mammon shall
be swatted—and the Swatter shall be US! " Where's the lad more fit than me to ..."
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