A gullible person who believes everything they hear; someone easily fooled or deceived.
From French 'gobe-mouche,' literally 'fly-swallower' (from 'gober' meaning to swallow and 'mouche' meaning fly), referring to someone so foolish they would swallow flies.
This French insult is delightfully absurd—it literally calls someone stupid enough to eat flies, yet captures perfectly that person who believes every ridiculous rumor without question!
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