Sentence examples for gowk from inspiring English sources

In Scotland the day is Gowkie Day, for the gowk, or cuckoo, a symbol of the fool and the cuckold, which suggests that it may have been associated at one time with sexual license; on the following day signs reading "kick me" are pinned to friends' backs.

The same gag was popular in the 18th & 19th centuries in Scotland & known as "huntin' the gowk".

It was reminiscent of the stinging review of an Oscar Wilde lecture by Ambrose Bierce, who wrote that Wilde was a "gawky gowk" who "wanders about posing as a statue of himself".

He wouldn't want to give succour to the gowks (fools) among the theatre's detractors who like to mutter darkly about artistic director Vicky Featherstone and associate director John Tiffany being English.