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Word For The Day: GOBEMOUCH

Posted on 07/28/2015 8:18:06 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

Gobemouche

hear it pronounced

adjective

Definition:

a credulous person; especially : one who believes everything he or she hears

Examples:

"The Gobemouche abounds in clubs, coffee-houses, Capel Courts, Bellamy's, and all old women's tea-parties." – Punch, or the London Charivari, 1857

Gobemouche is evidence that certain unpleasant things, when cloaked in the veneer of French, can sound rather pleasant.

About the Word:

The word rolls off the tongue easily, and sounds quite lovely; however, if we look at the etymology it more or less translates to "fly gulper" (from the French gober, meaning "to swallow whole", and mouche, meaning "fly").


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To: Louis Foxwell
"Gobe la bouch, s’il vous plait."

I tried that, but it gave me a dry mouth.

41 posted on 07/29/2015 5:58:59 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Australia: Every animal is one of three types: Dangerous, Poisonous, or sheep." Rorschach's Blot)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

There once was a politician named Larouche
Who’s conspiracy theories included one about Bush
The young gathered round
To hear him expound
And snaped it up like gobemouche,


42 posted on 07/29/2015 6:00:50 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Nicely done.

satire award


43 posted on 07/29/2015 6:01:54 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: xsmommy; SoothingDave

My computer crashed, we now have a new one. Soother was a prince posting with no notice.


44 posted on 07/29/2015 6:02:48 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Honorary Serb
Verily, verily....

Pearls of Wisdom Award:


45 posted on 07/29/2015 6:03:36 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: xsmommy
Excellent.Honorable Mention Award:


46 posted on 07/29/2015 6:09:36 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: dblshot
You have won the coveted limerick award.miss limerick
47 posted on 07/29/2015 6:11:21 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: tioga; SoothingDave

well we have bailed his sorry butt out a time or two with posting when he’s forgotten what day of the week it is, so there is that... ; ) but yes, I appreciate it, soother.


48 posted on 07/29/2015 6:24:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

nice to have a new computer, though!


49 posted on 07/29/2015 6:25:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell

Aye and begorrah!


50 posted on 07/29/2015 6:45:44 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Gobemouch, gobemuch, will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.
51 posted on 07/29/2015 6:47:15 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: xsmommy

I should have read through first. I wound up coping you but I used the Muppets version.


52 posted on 07/29/2015 6:48:11 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

GMTA : )
so how much longer until you have your young’un out and about?


53 posted on 07/29/2015 6:51:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

We are around 30 days until delivery day although I suspect he will be early. He’s getting big.


54 posted on 07/29/2015 6:55:09 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

what fun you are going to have.


55 posted on 07/29/2015 7:22:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy

Thanks!

“Be the Bee, not the fly!!!!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i60S6r_sf8o


56 posted on 07/29/2015 7:37:14 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

thank you for that!


57 posted on 07/29/2015 7:57:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I was gonna use that one!

Today is Rain Day in Waynesburg. Not looking good for any rain for the festivities this year.


58 posted on 07/29/2015 8:05:18 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

what festivities are we enjoying?


59 posted on 07/29/2015 8:09:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I haven’t personally partaken, but they always mention it on the TV weather. It’s in Greene county. A festival, parade, name a Rain Day queen, everything.

Official records have at least a touch of rain on 114 of 141 years.

It all started with a guy observing that it always rains on his birthday

http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20150728/NEWS02/150729457


60 posted on 07/29/2015 8:33:13 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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