A stupid or vacant-looking person; someone given to staring or gawking.
Derived from gaup with a Latin-style suffix -us, creating a noun for a person characterized by the action. This is a humorous or contemptuous term.
Adding Latin endings to Germanic words was a way English speakers could be cleverly insulting—'gaupus' sounds official and learned while meaning 'a gawking idiot.'
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