gowk

"Of course ye are, gowk.

If Gowk knew what she was about, she'd have him see a psychiatrist.

The gowk traditionally sent forth its first call in spring from this stone.

"Give him less breath to talk down to us, the conceited gowk.

"Will you look at the puir gowk of a man, now?"

'Remember, Gowk, remember the day before you found the body?

I'll tell Gowk next time I see her.

Had that silly gowk but the wit to lead him - "a fin" - where were I now?

It remains to be seen whether they turn out like 'hunting the gowk.'

"Get out of my way, you rattlebrained, slouching gowk!"

Nobody calls me Gowk any more.

"Now you've done it, you great clumsy gowk."

Gowk was the cleverest of the lot of us.'

Hunting the gowk is a fool's errand.

He should have married Gowk, only Kinnoul got to her first.'

Gowk meant both cuckoo & fool, the latter were thought to be fairy-touched.

I think Gowk does.

Partway down the slope is the protuberance of Gowk Hill (1,545 ft).

E'en a great gowk like him deserves a touch o happiness, for all his face'd crack to show it."

Suey and Gowk lived a bit further away, other side of the school from the rest of us.'

Hunt the gowk another mile".

"For no matter what poor gowk has fathered her, no lass has ever had a better mother.

'We can't let you do that, Gowk.

These earthquakes were caused by a combination of reverse-motion and strike-slip motion on the north-south oriented Gowk fault.

The various Gowk stones often had other functions, such as acting as boundary markers or meeting places in what may have sometimes featureless landscapes.

"Oh, you great gowk!