hunt the gowk (English, verb)
expansion: hunt the gowk (third-person singular simple present hunts the gowk, present participle hunting the gowk, simple past and past participle hunted the gowk)
Senses:
glosses: To go on a fool's errand, on which one is sent as a prank.
tags: UK
dialectal
Forms:
form: hunts the gowk
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hunting the gowk
tags: participle
present
form: hunted the gowk
tags: participle
past
form: hunted the gowk
tags: past