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Definition of 'fool'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(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.
* 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).
(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
* Milton
- Can they think me their fool or jester?
* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
- I'm a fool for the city.
(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
- an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
A particular card in a tarot deck.
Synonyms
* (person with poor judgment) See also
* (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker
* (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite
Verb
To trick; to make a fool of someone.
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
* Dryden
- Is this a time for fooling ?
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* befool
* fool about
* fool around
* foolhardy
* foolish
* foolishness
* foolometer
* fool's errand
( rel-mid)
* fool's gold
* fool's paradise
* foolproof
* more fool you
* play the fool
* suffer fools gladly
* there's no fool like an old fool
( rel-bottom)
Similar to 'fool'fall, fell, feel, full, fil, foal, fuel, fail, foil, fowl, fill, foul, foll, feal, fewel, fewl
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