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fool

/fuːl/ noun

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In Latin: stultus, mōrus, mōra Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about fool at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
  2. A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  3. A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.

verb

  1. To trick; to deceive.
  2. To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
  3. To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

adjective

  1. Foolish.

noun

  1. A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
    an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool

Origin

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.

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