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

make a fool or dupe of

spend frivolously and unwisely; " Fritter away one's inheritance"

a person who lacks good judgment

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

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.

I am sure before 'tis over I shall make A fool of myself! – The Love-Chase by James Sheridan Knowles

" I don't want a fool. – The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

Told him he was a fool. – Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

Come away, you fool! – Red Money by Fergus Hume

What if she has made a fool of me?" – The Guests Of Hercules by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

What a fool ! – Queechy, Volume II by Elizabeth Wetherell

Let him who is fool enough, believe it." – The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

What a fool I was to come here! – Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Oh, what a fool I've been! – Short Cruises by W.W. Jacobs

" He's a fool, then," said Thomas. – The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume

" I wonder what the fool will say next," whispered Inspector Chippenfield to Crewe. – The Hampstead Mystery by John R. Watson

Who you goin' to fool, sweety? – Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

You call me a fool, and I'll hit you, and then you go at me again, and we should know then what we could do." – Burr Junior by G. Manville Fenn

She is not such a fool. – A Simpleton by Charles Reade

Fool that he had been! – When the Sleepers Woke by Arthur Leo Zagat

But you are a little fool. – The Heart of Rome by Francis Marion Crawford

No, I'm not such a fool. – The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. Dell

Be not a fool! – Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In one word, sir, I'm neither mad nor a fool! – The Parent's Assistant by Maria Edgeworth

He has not been fool enough to believe madame would marry him, but he would have married her any day. – Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas