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badaud

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From Occitan to French

From French badaud.

noun 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.

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@misc{badaud_2026,
  title = {badaud},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/badaud},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}