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"ref": "1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 83",
"text": "\"What does it look like?\" \"Like...like...\" Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, \"like a wogle-stone, thou gowk.\"",
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"ref": "1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff",
"text": "God has sent me gowks for secretaries.",
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"ref": "2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303",
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"(Geordie) An apple core."
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"(dialectal) The hard centre of a boil or sore."
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"(dialectal) The inner part of a haystack."
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"A cuckoo."
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"(Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo."
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"ref": "1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Old Mortality",
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"ref": "1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 83",
"text": "\"What does it look like?\" \"Like...like...\" Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, \"like a wogle-stone, thou gowk.\"",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff",
"text": "God has sent me gowks for secretaries.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303",
"text": "`You daft great gowk, puttin' yerself in the way of harm after all this time out of a war.'",
"type": "quotation"
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"A fool."
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"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"An apple core."
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"Geordie English"
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"obsolete"
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"haystack"
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]
}
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{
"word": "goak"
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"word": "gauk"
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{
"word": "gouk"
},
{
"word": "geak"
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{
"word": "cowk"
}
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"1": "nn",
"2": "gulka",
"t": "to burp, belch"
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "cowk",
"t": "to strain, retch"
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "kolken",
"t": "to gulp"
},
"expansion": "German kolken (“to gulp”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "kölken"
},
"expansion": "German kölken",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "kolksen",
"t": "to vomit"
},
"expansion": "kolksen (“to vomit”)",
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"1": "da",
"2": "kulke",
"t": "to gulp"
},
"expansion": "Danish kulke (“to gulp”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"singular",
"third-person"
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