gaping

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of gape

Adjective

• Wide open.

Noun

• The act of one who gapes.
• Something gaping; something agape.
• A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.

Origin

• From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape + -ing.
• From Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape + -ing.