With 2 DQs I'm going to withdraw the word which, as you might have guessed from the above lyrics, has the etymology gober (to swallow whole) and mouche (fly) and represents a gullible person.
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In French, from which the word is of course borrowed, the figuratve sense 'gullible person' is now old-fashioned, but the literal sense 'flycatcher' is still current.