Gotham: At one time the term was applied to a parish of Nottingham, England. The people here were famed for their stupidity and simplicity, which obtained for them the satirical appellation of the "wise men of Gotham." Many nations have designated some particular locality as the paradise of fools; for example, Phrygia was the fools' home in Asia, Abdera of the Thracians, Boetia of the Greeks, Swabia of the Germans, etc. To Americans it is chiefly significant as a colloquial term for the city of New York. Thus appl

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