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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: lee martell
A perfect illustration of a villain.


21 posted on 07/29/2015 4:52:07 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: lee martell
One of our most enjoyable villains.


22 posted on 07/29/2015 4:57:35 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: shibumi

Thanks for the smile. I look forward to tomorrow’s word.


23 posted on 07/29/2015 4:58:59 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

John Kerry, Secretary, Gobemouche
He acts just like Obama, quite the douche
Spouts success with Iran
Cites a nuclear “ban”
I implore him him to fermez la bouche


24 posted on 07/29/2015 5:12:05 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
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").

... perhaps she'll die.

25 posted on 07/29/2015 5:15:53 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

Oh my! You beat to all my rhymes!

I was dithering whether to use the “d” word and ya’slipped your limerick in.

All I can say is “Great Minds Think Alike”.

But then...look at my Tag Line!

I think we might be twins separated at birth. hahaha


26 posted on 07/29/2015 5:19:30 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

GOP elite are most perturbed
with Trump they are disturbed
Trump fans are gobemouche
To his hairpiece, touché
Trump’s mouth they wish to see curbed.


27 posted on 07/29/2015 5:21:25 AM PDT by tioga
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To: NicknamedBob

I don’t know why.


28 posted on 07/29/2015 5:22:16 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Louis Foxwell
Gobi-Mooch

Someone who lives in a desert and borrows money from relatives.


29 posted on 07/29/2015 5:36:31 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: tioga; Louis Foxwell
"I don’t know why."

Overarching gullibility, obviously. Some people will swallow anything.

30 posted on 07/29/2015 5:39:12 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
Very nice.

A certificate of prowess for you.

First Place

31 posted on 07/29/2015 5:42:57 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: left that other site

I second that, perhaps not even separated. After all, you two are joined here at the keystroke.


32 posted on 07/29/2015 5:44:33 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: tioga
Indeed they are. Another rousing cheer for a dais winner.

Second place

33 posted on 07/29/2015 5:45:53 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

LOL! :-)


34 posted on 07/29/2015 5:46:50 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Gobe la bouch, s’il vous plait.


35 posted on 07/29/2015 5:48:37 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: NicknamedBob

For all the officianados of limerick:
I KNOW AN OLD LADY
written by Rose Bonne and Alan Mills-
©1952 Peer International ( Canada) Ltd. SOCAN

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a bird
How absurd to swallow a bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a cat
Imagine that. She swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a dog
What a hog to swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a goat
Opened her throat and down went the goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a cow
I don’t know how she swallowed the cow
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse
She’s alive and well of course!


36 posted on 07/29/2015 5:50:31 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Gobemouche, Gobemouche, will you do the fandango?
37 posted on 07/29/2015 5:52:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

perfect!


38 posted on 07/29/2015 5:53:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell

The Big Media propaganda machine works to turn the entire American people into a population of gobemouches, so that they will all vote for creeps like obama and Hillary without question.

It’s time to wake up, folks!!!!

By the way, when I Google “ gobemouche “, I get pictures of flycatcher birds. It’s a lot better for birds to be gobemouches than people!!!!


39 posted on 07/29/2015 5:54:05 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: tioga; SoothingDave
Thank you to Soother for filling in for me on Monday. I had a great birthday weekend in NYC. We saw the play Something Rotten which was very very good. and I ate ice cream for the first time in over a year : )
40 posted on 07/29/2015 5:56:53 AM PDT by xsmommy
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