gawby
A British dialectal word with two senses: an old or archaic sense meaning a baby, and a more common surviving sense meaning a fool or simpleton.
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A British dialectal word with two senses: an old or archaic sense meaning a baby, and a more common surviving sense meaning a fool or simpleton. The foolish sense is more frequently documented and carries mild contempt. Found in Yorkshire and northern English dialect writing.
She sighed and told him not to be such a gawby when he got lost on a route he had walked a hundred times.
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(UK, dialect, dated) A fool.
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(UK, dialect, archaic) A baby.
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