CREDULITY, CREDULOUS
ADJECTIVES
1584 — CREDULENT credulous; inclined to believe, esp. on weak or insufficient grounds
1698 — EASY credulous, gullible; easily taken advantage of or imposed upon; easily fooled
1825 — ULTRAFIDIAN blindly credulous; going beyond mere faith
1845 — GOBEMOUCHE said of a person who credulously accepts all news → rare
1905 — OOLLENLY credulous, simple-minded → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1586 — CREDULENCY ready belief, credulity → obs. rare
1650 — CREDULENCE ready belief, credulity → rare
1845 — OMNICREDULITY universal credulity; capacity of believing anything whatever
NOUNS, PERSON
1584 — GUDGEON a credulous, gullible person; one who will swallow anything
1592 — GILL → GILLS a credulous or gullible person
1616 — CREDULIST a credulous person → obs. rare
1785 — SIMON → SIMPLE SIMON a credulous gullible person; a simpleton → sl.
1802 — GULPIN a credulous simpleton; one who will swallow anything; one easily gulled
1818 — GOBEMOUCHE a credulous person who will believe anything, no matter how improbable or absurd → rare
.M19 — DAISY a credulous or gullible person → US students’ sl.
1911 — BLUFF a credulous person → Sc. (Bk.)
1940 — CHIEF a credulous person; a potential victim of a confidence trickster; it is common term of address, used ironically by the con-man when he approaches the victim → W. Indies sl.
PHRASES
..20C — I DIDN’T FALL OFF A CHRISTMAS TREE used to reject imputation of credulity
VERBS
1856 — RISE to listen credulously; to play into one’s hands → sl.
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