Niais: adj. and N. (word coming from popular Latin °nidax, from nidus: nest).
The word “simple” has several meanings:
1. In falconry: Who has not yet left the nest.
Silly hawk.
2. Common meaning: Whose simplicity, inexperience goes as far as stupidity (simple; jocrisse, naive, simple, stupid; colloquial: goof, jobard, nunuche; region: stupid, nono).
- Quote from the French writer André Gide (1869-1951): “Better an intelligent adversary than a stupid friend” (Gide).
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