The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gawk \Gawk\, v. i.
   1. To act like a gawky.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly;
      to gape; -- usually used with at.
      [PJC]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gawk \Gawk\ (g[add]k), n. [OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel.
   gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS.
   g['e]ac cuckoo, Sw. g["o]k, Dan. gi["o]g]
   1. A cuckoo. --Johnson.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. --Carlyle.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gawk
    n 1: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod,
         stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump,
         gawk]
    v 1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape,
         gawp, gawk]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

gawk
GNU awk

    GNU awk.  Gawk is a superset of standard
   awk and includes some Plan 9 features.

   David Trueman and Arnold Robbins of Georgia Institute of
   Technology were developing it in 1993.  It has been ported to
   Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Archimedes.

   Available by FTP from your nearest GNU archive site.

   Mac version

(ftp://archive.umich.edu/mac/utilities/developerhelps/macgawk2.11.cpt.hqx).

   (2000-10-21)