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gawp (n.)
"fool, simpleton," 1825, perhaps from
gawp
(v.) "to yawn, gape" (as in astonishment), which is attested from 1680s, a dialectal survival of
galp
(c. 1300), which is related to
yelp
or
gape
and perhaps confused with or influenced by
gawk
.
