Die Goaßgschau is not a word that you’d hear everywhere across German speaking countries; rather it’s a dialect word that’s found exclusively in Bavaria in southeast Germany. In English Goaßgschau translates to “the stare of a goat”, or a person’s absent-minded gaze which resembles that of a goat’s blank stare. Goaß is the Bavarian dialect word for goat (as opposed to the standard German word die Ziege) and Gschau is the Bavarian dialect word for a person’s facial expression (which is quite far off from the standard German word Der Gesichtsausdruck). "Wenn nun jemand während einer Vorlesung abwesend ist, Dann ist das Goaßgschau in seiner schönsten Form zu beobachten." When someone's not quite present during a lecture, then the Goaßgschau can be observed in its purest form.

Source: The Local October 01, 2019 14:26 UTC