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indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

a person who lacks good judgment

indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

a person who lacks good judgment

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

To infatuate; to make foolish.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

To infatuate; to make foolish.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

A person lacking in reason or intelligence; idiot; in old times, a court jester; one who acts in an unwise manner; a victim or butt.

To make a butt of; treat with contempt; disappoint; deceive.

One who acts stupidly; a person of weak mind; a jester; (B.) a wicked person.

To deceive; to treat with contempt.

To play the fool; to trifle.

Silly or stupid person; jester.

To play the fool.

To make a fool of; impose upon; deceive; play the fool.

A person lacking sense; a simpleton.

An idiot; imbecile.

A court jester.

A person of weak intellect; a person who acts foolishly; a buffoon; a jester.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed with cream.

To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to deceive; to infatuate; to cheat. The feast of fools, a kind of festival in the middle ages, somewhat similar to the Saturnalia of the Romans. Abbot of fools, a sort of histrionic character or leading buffoon at the public festivals or mummeries of Christmas or Shrovetide. To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act like one void of understanding. To put the fool on, to treat as foolish. To make a fool of; to frustrate; to defeat. To fool away, to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage; to spend for things of no value or use; to expend improvidently.

To trifle; to toy; to spend time in idleness, sport, or mirth.

One who acts absurdly; a person who is void of reason or understanding; a person of a weak intellect; a jester.

To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to cheat; to trifle; to toy.

n. [French] One who is destitute of reason; an idiot; a natural;—a person deficient in intellect; a simpleton; a dunce;—a wicked person;—a professional jester or buffoon.

n. Viand or beverage made of gooseberries and cream:—also gooseberry fool.

One to whom nature has denied reason, a natural, an idiot; in Scripture, a wicked man; a term of indignity and reproach; one who counterfeits folly, a buffoon, a jefter.