Gawk vs Explore - What's the difference?
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Appalachian English
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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Gawk is a related term of explore.
As verbs the difference between gawk and explore
is that gawk is to stare or gape stupidly while explore is .As a noun gawk
is a cuckoo or gawk can be a simpleton, stupid or clumsy person.gawk
English
Etymology 1
From a variant of gowk, from (etyl) gowke, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
A Middle-Appalachian Americanism, since late 1800s, possibly misconstruing French "gauche," and leading to use of adj gawky for a person or process that is uncoordinated or awkward.Etymology 3
Perhaps from (etyl) .References
explore
English
Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
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- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.