Crossword-Solution: GAWKS 5 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The next instant one of the soldiers snatched him rudely away, and sent him spinning among the gaping crowd of country gawks and London idlers.

And that's why I'm saying there ain't his like in this western country, and that's as true as your name is Sandy Bayne.” “Well, my name is Sandy Bayne, all right, but how did he come out at the Calgary trials?” “Aw, those damned gawks! They don't know a good dog from a he-goat! They don't know what a dog is for, or how to use him.” “Oh, now, Stewart,” said Sandy, “I guess Willocks knows a dog when he sees one.” “Willocks!” said his friend with scorn.

There was always a raft of them there, either coming or going; and the way they exploited him! He supported them all; heaven knew how many there were; such drabs and gawks, all elbows and knees, who soaked themselves with cologne and made companions of the servants.

Dowdies would have been the name for them, or frumps, or frights, or country gawks, because their attire was not statuesque or classic, as it should have been, which means that they were not half naked.

What have you got to say against them?' 'A set of _frights_ and _gawks_,' said Lucy, sitting bolt upright in a state of flat mutiny, and crushing her handkerchief on her knee between a pair of trembling hands.