the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > location associated with > person belonging to (4)
Ironically applied to a fool or simpleton, as in the wise men of Gotham (see Gotham, n. 1).
one who takes after the men of Gotham; a blunderer, a simpleton.
A ‘man of Gotham’, a simpleton.
(a) = Gothamist n.; (b) a New-Yorker.