Simple Simon

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Simple Simon

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From the nursery rhyme of the same name.

noun Simple Simons

  1. A fool, or gullible person. Now, will your kind of birth control select out specially for suppression the Simple Simons, the Peeping Toms, the Dumme Lisas? Oh, no, indeed.

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@misc{simple_simon_2026,
  title = {Simple Simon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/simple%20simon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}