plural of gowk

(Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo. / A fool.

To make foolish; to stupefy.

(Tyneside) An apple core. / (Tyneside, obsolete) The central part of any thing.

present participle of gowk

simple past tense and past participle of gowk

plural of glimmer-gowk

(UK, dialectal, obsolete) An owl.

(UK, dialect) To go on a fool's errand, on which one is sent as a prank.