gobemouches

Again the "gobemouches" trout, the fellows on the look-out for novelty, dashed up and swallowed disappointing juiceless morsels, and with them swallowed hooks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862

During the 18th and 19th centuries, a popular English prank was to invite gobemouches literally, a kind of flycatcher.

Archive 2009-03-01

These people are great gobemouches; they always report the most incredible things.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846