FOOL
\fˈuːl], \fˈuːl], \f_ˈuː_l]\
Definitions of FOOL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"
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a person who lacks good judgment
By Princeton University
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indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"
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a person who lacks good judgment
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
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One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
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To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
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To infatuate; to make foolish.
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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
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One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
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To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
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To infatuate; to make foolish.
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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.
By Noah Webster.
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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.
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To make a butt of; treat with contempt; disappoint; deceive.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One who acts stupidly; a person of weak mind; a jester; (B.) a wicked person.
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To deceive; to treat with contempt.
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To play the fool; to trifle.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make a fool of; impose upon; deceive; play the fool.
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A person lacking sense; a simpleton.
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An idiot; imbecile.
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A court jester.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A person of weak intellect; a person who acts foolishly; a buffoon; a jester.
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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed with cream.
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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.
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To trifle; to toy; to spend time in idleness, sport, or mirth.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who acts absurdly; a person who is void of reason or understanding; a person of a weak intellect; a jester.
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To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to cheat; to trifle; to toy.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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.
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n. Viand or beverage made of gooseberries and cream:—also gooseberry fool.