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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
gawp .
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Examples
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When I had jaundice, they all came and gawped at me.
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Lesley didn't bat an eyelid, but I gawped, until a lady asked for money, then I shot off.
Family life 2012
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So when the young hotel receptionist welcomed us and wished us a “pleasant and memorable stay,” I gawped at every precise word that came out of her beautiful mouth.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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This, of course, to anyone who has gawped at the pyramids of Giza or wandered slack-jawed around the temple of Karnak, cannot help but feel frustrating.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple Tom Holland 2010
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I also loved the Grewal clan, British Indians from west London, bickering and eating bhajis while we sat at home and gawped.
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So when the young hotel receptionist welcomed us and wished us a “pleasant and memorable stay,” I gawped at every precise word that came out of her beautiful mouth.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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So when the young hotel receptionist welcomed us and wished us a “pleasant and memorable stay,” I gawped at every precise word that came out of her beautiful mouth.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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The six million who gawped at Mr Griffin on Question Time three months ago were looking at the wrong person.
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The novel ends, seemingly on a high, with Theodora walking out with the emperor Justinian, her new husband, to greet the very crowds who had once cheered and gawped at her floor-shows.
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The six million who gawped at Mr Griffin on Question Time three months ago were looking at the wrong person.
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