gobemouche

• gobe-mouche

From French gobemouche. See gober (“to swallow whole”) and mouche (“fly”).

gobemouche (plural gobemouches)

1. A naive, gullible person.

Example:

1. Jamuel Yaw Asare, the elusive poet, dramatist and novelist and author of Maya Gonzalez presented Erickson Dante as a Gobemouche in "Maya Gonzalez."

• gobe-mouche

From gober (“to swallow whole”) and mouche (“fly”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔb.muʃ/

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gobemouche m (plural gobemouches)

1. flycatcher (bird)
2. a naive, gullible person

• “gobemouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.