“Gawk” (Gok)- “to gaze or stare stupidly”

ORIGINAL SOLD

I drove past a tree one day that looked like a voluptuous woman with flowing hair.  The way my mind works when it comes to trees, I immediately pictured all the other surrounding trees being male…and spending their days staring in her general direction….dreaming about her flowing hair and shapely root-legs.  To “gawk” means to gaze or stare stupidly, but there are a host of synonyms…peeking, peeping, eyeballing, gazing, gaping, goggling, ogling, staring, and rubbernecking to name a few.  All of them pay tribute to the often unconscious involuntary action of departing from the world around you, eyeballs glued in a singular direction, mouth agape in the fly catcher position.  If you say you’ve never gawked at anything ever in your life…well, I might have a hard time believin’ that.

 

  • Artwork by: Susan Elliot

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