Etymology

gobe-mouche

Today it means: A naive, gullible person. Full definition →

French gobe-mouche
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  1. French · borrowed fromgobe-mouche
  2. English todaygobe-mouche

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

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