badaud
See also: badaûd
English
Etymology
Noun
badaud (plural badauds)
- A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.
- Pall Mall Magazine
- a host of stories […] dealing chiefly with the subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic to the badauds of Paris.
- Pall Mall Magazine
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan badau, from badar, from Latin batare, probably ultimately imitative of yawning or gaping. Related to English abash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bado/
Noun
badaud m (plural badauds)
Further reading
- “badaud” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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