gaffen.
to stare at curiously, rubberneck
Meaning & usage
to stare at curiously, rubberneck
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German gaffen (“to gape; to stare”), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”); influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Doublet of jappen (which is from Low German), and cognate with Dutch gapen, English gape.
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