simple Simon

A foolish, gullible person; a simpleton. This expression comes from the well-known nursery rhyme “Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair,” in turn a rhymed version of a tale from an eighteenth-century chapbook. By 1785 Grose’s dictionary defined the term as “a natural, a silly fellow.” James Joyce used it in Ulysses (1922): “I looked so simple in the cradle they christened me simple Simon.” However, it is probably obsolescent. See also: Simon, simple

单词	simple simon
释义	Simple Simon Simple Simon n. A foolish fellow; a simpleton. [After Simple Simon, , a character in a nursery rhyme.] Simple Simon n a foolish man or boy; simpleton [C20: after the name of a character in a nursery rhyme] simple Simon simple Simon A foolish, gullible person; a simpleton. This expression comes from the well-known nursery rhyme “Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair,” in turn a rhymed version of a tale from an eighteenth-century chapbook. By 1785 Grose’s dictionary defined the term as “a natural, a silly fellow.” James Joyce used it in Ulysses (1922): “I looked so simple in the cradle they christened me simple Simon.” However, it is probably obsolescent. See also: Simon, simple Simple Simon Simple Simon credulous booby. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 387]See: Gullibility Simple Simon simpleton of bumptious ways. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 385]See: Stupidity
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