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Word of the Day – Gobemouche

By April 4, 2021Word of the Day

Gobemouche (noun)

go-bu-moosh

A person who believes everything he or she is told; a gullible or credulous person.

Early 19th century. From French gobe-mouches credulous person; in some forms with reinterpretation of the final -s as marking the plural of the whole compound.

Example sentences

“He’s such a gobemouche, you can tell him anything and he’ll lap it up!”

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