Crossword-Solution: GOWK 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dinna luik sae scaret like, sir; we may be in time yet er’ the warst come to the warst, though it’s some ill to say what may be the warst in sic an ill coopered kin’ o’ affair! There’s thae twa fules o’ bairns--trowth, they’re nae better; an’ the tane ’s jist as muckle to blame as the tither--only the lass is waur to blame nor the lad, bein’ made sharper, an’ kennin’ better nor him what comes o’ sic!--Eh, but she is a gowk!” Here Mrs.

His feet's ower sma'.' Or yet again: 'Saw ye ever sic a gowk, to mak sic a wark aboot sittin' doon an' haein' his feet washed, as gin that cost a body onything!' CHAPTER XVI.

But Betsy Dan was engaged in terrorizing Jimmie, and failed to come in, till, after an awful pause, Thomas gave her a sharp nudge, and whispered audibly, “Give it to him, you gowk.” Poor Betsy Dan, in sudden confusion, whipped her hand out from under her apron, and thrusting a box at the master, said hurriedly, “Here it is, sir.” As Thomas solemnly concluded his address, a smile ran round the room, while Jimmie doubled himself up in his efforts to suppress a tempest of snickers.

Gien ye wad lat a body speyk ’at kens naething, ’cep’ ’at oot o’ the moo’ o’ babes an’ sucklin’s--an’ troth I’m naither babe nor sucklin’ this mony a lang, but I’m a muckle eneuch gowk to be ane o’ the Lord’s innocents, an’ hae him perfec’ praise oot o’ the moo’ o’ me!--” She paused a moment, feeling it was time the laird should say something--which immediately he did.

For a moment he was terribly perplexed: he had been expecting to come on her feet, not her head: how could she have gone in head foremost, and not come back feet foremost? ‘Eh, wuman,’ he said in a fear-struck whisper, ‘it’s awfu’ to see ye come oot o’ the yird like a muckle worm!’ ‘Ye saw me gang in, Steenie, ye gowk!’ returned Kirsty, dismayed herself at sight of his solemn dread.