Usually means: Fool, simpleton; cuckoo bird synonym.
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  1. gowk: Merriam-Webster
  2. gowk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gowk: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Gowk, gowk: Wordnik
  5. gowk: Wiktionary
  6. gowk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. gowk: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Gowk, gowk: Dictionary.com
  9. Gowk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Gowk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gowk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Gowk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. gowk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Gowk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. gowk: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gowk: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. gowk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Gowk: World Wide Words

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  1. gowk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gowk: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. gowk: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (gowk)

noun:  (Northern England, Scotland) A cuckoo.
noun:  A fool.
verb:  To make foolish; to stupefy.
noun:  (Geordie) An apple core.
noun:  (Geordie, obsolete) The central part of any thing; pith; core.
noun:  (dialectal) The hard centre of a boil or sore.
noun:  (dialectal) The yolk of an egg.
noun:  (dialectal) The inner part of a haystack.
verb:  (dialectal) To retch; vomit.

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