🤦 A gullible person 🤪 A silly person

josser

9.9

A person who is easily tricked

noun
/ˈdʒɒsə/

Offensive

: pringado

The clever salesman spotted a josser and quickly convinced him to buy the useless gadget.

Examples

Don't act like a josser and fall for obvious scams online.
He was such a josser that he believed every prank his friends played on him.
Don't be such a josser!
He is a complete josser when it comes to scams.
He fell for the joke so quickly that everyone knew he was a josser.
The con artist took advantage of the josser by selling him fake tickets.
When he believed the outrageous story, his friends labeled him a josser.

Synonyms

sucker

vsjosser

Offensive

300 7.0

A person who is easily tricked

adds that the person is gullible or naive rather than only deceived

dupe

vsjosser

Offensive

14 7.0

A person who is easily tricked into believing false things

focuses on being gullible or naive rather than on being tricked into actions

gudge

vsjosser

Offensive

1 9.9

An old word for a person who is easily tricked

is a current general term rather than an old-fashioned word

Uncle Sucker

vsjosser

Offensive

9.9

A person who trusts others and falls for tricks easily

is a general description rather than a term used to refer to someone

Antonyms

skeptic

77 4.1

A person who often doubts accepted ideas and asks for proof

cynic

39 5.8

A person who thinks people act only to help themselves

sophisticate

5 7.7

A person who knows a lot about fashion, art, and good manners

How Gullible

dupe

Offensive

14 7.0

josser

Offensive

9.9

unsuspecting

53 4.2

Surface Forms

josser singular

jossers plural

Etymology

The word josser probably comes from the verb josh, which means 'to tease' or 'to joke', so a josser is someone people can joke with or trick. That's why josser means a person who is easily fooled or gullible.