badaud

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badaud - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Badaud \Ba`daud"\, n. [F.]
     A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder
     or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A host of stories . . . dealing chiefly with the
           subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic
           to the badauds of Paris.                 --Pall Mall
                                                    Mag.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]