badaud

== English == === Etymology === From Occitan to French From French badaud. === 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. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Occitan badau, from badar, from Medieval Latin badare (“to gape, yawn”), probably ultimately imitative of yawning or gaping. Related to English abash. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ba.do/ === Noun === badaud m (plural badauds) onlooker, bystander, rubbernecker === Further reading === “badaud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012