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n. a cuckoo

n. a fool

v. To make a, booby of one); to stupefy.

n. The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

n. A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

n. A cuckoo.

n. A stupid fellow; a gawk. See gawk, 2.

To make (a person) look like a fool or gawk; puzzle.

"The Scotch employ the term "gowk" to express a fool in general, but more especially an April fool; and among them the practice which we have described is called"

to give one the gowk   

stupefy    simpleton   

ex-governor    hardass    men    windbag    looking    high-flown    inexactitude    prat    fogy    bastard