fool
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /fuːl/
- (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
- The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- 2008, Adele, Crazy for You
- And every time I'm meant to be acting sensible
You drift into my head
And turn me into a crumbling fool.
- And every time I'm meant to be acting sensible
- 2001, Starsailor (band), Poor Misguided Fool
- You're just a poor misguided fool
Who thinks they know what I should do
A line for me and a line for you
I lose my right to a point of view.
- You're just a poor misguided fool
- 1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—
- If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
- If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 13
- ‘If I coloured at all, Mr Edward,’ said Joe, ‘which I didn’t know I did, it was to think I should have been such a fool as ever to have any hope of her. She’s as far out of my reach as—as Heaven is.’
- 1743, Benjamin Franklin
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants
- This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
- 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Can they think me […] their fool or jester?
- 1975, Foghat, "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
- I'm a fool for the city.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
- (often, capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (person with poor judgment) See also Thesaurus:fool
- (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker
- (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite
- French: imbécile, idiot
- German: Tor, Törin, Dummkopf, Narr, Närrin, dumme Gans, (female) Trottel
- Italian: imbecille, idiota, (familiar) scemo, sciocco, buffone
- Portuguese: bobo, tolo, idiota, imbecil
- Russian: дура́к
- Spanish: bobo, tonto, necio, imbécil
- French: fou, bouffon
- German: Narr, Närrin, Eulenspiegel, Ulenspiegel
- Italian: buffone, giullare, pagliaccio, buffone di corte
- Portuguese: bobo da corte, bobo
- Russian: шут
- Spanish: bufón
- German: -narr
- German: Mus
fool (fools, present participle fooling; past fooled, past participle fooled)
- To trick; to deceive
- 1918, Florence White Williams, The Little Red Hen
- She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
- 1918, Florence White Williams, The Little Red Hen
- To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
- 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar
- Is this a time for fooling?
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
- She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible committee. And that me and Jimmy fool more than we work.
- 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar
- See also Thesaurus:deceive
- French: duper, tromper, (colloquial) rouler
- German: täuschen, schwindeln, betrügen, (colloquial) verarschen, vormachen
- Italian: ingannare, farsi beffe di s.o., fare lo sciocco, scherzare
- Portuguese: enganar, lograr
- Russian: дури́ть
- Spanish: engañar, engrupir, tomar el pelo
- Russian: дура́читься
fool (comparative fooler, superlative foolest)
- (informal) foolish
- 2011, Gayle Kaye, Sheriff Takes a Bride
- That was a fool thing to do. You could have gotten yourself shot
- 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
- Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook.
- 2011, Gayle Kaye, Sheriff Takes a Bride
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