gaping fool, swallows open-mouthed
gaping fool, who swallows open-mouthed all that is told him (cf. Κεχηναῖοι), Ar. Ach. 635 (pl., anap.).
The corpus record
χαυνο-πολίτης
chaunopolites · ὁ
gaping fool
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.