Noun: gauk
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Enno ei Gong den Velsignad eg fekk, at Gauken eg høyrde; […] (Once again I was granted the blessing to hear the cuckoo; […]) [1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Vaaren:]
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Borti haugana låg det gjerne nok av gauker, tøllegauka kalla me dei, for dei heldt gjerne til under ei stor fure. (Over in the hills one could often find unlicensed sellers of liquor. We called them pine traders, as they were often found underneath a large pine tree.) [1952, Norsk sætertradisjon, volume 47, page 560:]
Nouns inflected like gauk
bernhardin,
billettautomat,
røykdukkar,
krøpling,
symbal,
synops,
synsar,
syklon,
syklus,
swazilendar,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
serbar,
server,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
setjar,
settar,
sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse gaukr, from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz. See: Old Norse Nouns '
gaukr'.
Verbs referencing "gauk"
German Nouns
Gauch.
Translations