Gowk

"Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper.

"What does it look like?" "Like...like..." Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, "like a wogle-stone, thou gowk."

God has sent me gowks for secretaries.

`You daft great gowk, puttin' yerself in the way of harm after all this time out of a war.'

look how the man stands as he were gowk'd