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FOOL
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug
(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool
(noun) a person who lacks good judgment
jester, fool, motley fool
(noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
(verb) fool or hoax; “The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone”; “You can’t fool me!”
fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely; “Fritter away one’s inheritance”
fool, gull, befool
(verb) make a fool or dupe of
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fool
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
(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.
(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Buddy, dude, man.
(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
(often, capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Synonyms
• (person with poor judgment): See also fool
• (person who entertained a sovereign): jester, joker
• (person who talks a lot of nonsense): gobshite
Verb
fool (third-person singular simple present fools, present participle fooling, simple past and past participle fooled)
To trick; to deceive
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
Synonyms
• See also deceive
Adjective
fool (comparative fooler or more fool, superlative foolest or most fool)
(informal) Foolish.
Anagrams
• Olof, floo, loof
Source: Wiktionary
Fool, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.]
Definition: A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
Fool, n. Etym: [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.]
1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
2. 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. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Franklin.
3. (Script.)
Definition: One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Ps. xiv. 1.
4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc.
– Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.
– Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking.
– Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.
– Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction.
– Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.
– To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.
Fool, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.]
Definition: To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. Is this a time for fooling Dryden.
Fool, v. t.
1. To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. Dryden.
2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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