badaud

Etymology
From Occitan to French

Noun

 * 1) A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.
 * 2) * Pall Mall Magazine
 * a host of stories dealing chiefly with the subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic to the badauds of Paris.

Etymology
, from, from , probably ultimately of yawning or gaping. Related to English.

Noun

 * 1) onlooker, bystander, rubbernecker