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Fool

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Noun

1. fool, muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool

a person who lacks good judgment

2. chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

3. fool, jester, motley fool

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

Verb

4. befool, fool, gull

make a fool or dupe of

5. dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot

spend frivolously and unwisely

Example Sentences:
'Fritter away one's inheritance'

6. befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in

fool or hoax

Example Sentences:
'The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone'
'You can't fool me!'

7. arse around, fool, fool around, horse around

indulge in horseplay

Example Sentences:
'Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!'
'The bored children were fooling about'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Fool

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noun
1. 
a person who lacks sense or judgement
2. 
a person who is made to appear ridiculous
3. 
(formerly) a professional jester living in a royal or noble household
4. obsolete
an idiot or imbecile
the village fool
5.  form the fool
6.  no fool
7.  play the fool
verb
8. (transitive)
to deceive (someone), esp in order to make him or her look ridiculous
9. (intr; foll by with, around with, or about with) informal
to act or play (with) irresponsibly or aimlessly
to fool around with a woman
10. (intransitive)
to speak or act in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
11. (transitive; foll by away)
to squander; fritter
he fooled away a fortune
12.  fool along
adjective
13. informal short for foolish
noun
mainly British
a dessert made from a purée of fruit with cream or custard
gooseberry fool

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Fool

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noun
1. 
a. 
a person with little or no judgment, common sense, wisdom, etc.; silly or stupid person; simpleton
b.  Obsolete
a mentally retarded person
2. 
a man formerly kept in the household of a nobleman or king to entertain by joking and clowning; professional jester
3. 
a victim of a joke or trick; dupe
4. 
a person especially devoted to or skilled in some activity
a dancing fool
adjective
5.  Informal
foolish
verb intransitive
6. 
to act like a fool; be silly
7. 
to speak, act, etc. in jest; joke
8.  Informal
to trifle or meddle (with)
verb transitive
9. 
to make a fool of; trick; deceive; dupe
noun
British
crushed stewed fruit mixed with cream, esp. whipped cream

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Fool

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n.
1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.
3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe: They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.
4. Informal A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity: a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.
5. A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
6. One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.
7. A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
8. Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
v. fooled, fool·ing, fools
v.tr.
1. To deceive or trick; dupe: "trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather" (Charles Kuralt).
2. To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly: We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.
v.intr.
1. Informal
a. To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke: I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.
b. To behave comically; clown.
c. To feign; pretend: He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.
2. To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
3. To toy, tinker, or mess: shouldn't fool with matches.
adj.
Informal
Foolish; stupid: off on some fool errand or other.

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