Definitions for FOOLful

foolful(n.)

a silly or stupid person.
a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of rank for amusement:
the court fool.
a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing silly or stupid:
to make a fool of someone.
an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usu. prec. by a present participle):
a dancing fool.
(v.t.)to trick, deceive, or impose on:
They tried to fool us.
(v.i.)to act like a fool; joke; play.
to jest; pretend; make believe:
I was only fooling.
fool around, to putter aimlessly; waste time. to trifle or flirt. to be sexually promiscuous; engage casually in sexual activity.
Category: Verb Phrase
fool away, to squander foolishly, as time or money.
Category: Verb Phrase
fool with, to handle or play with idly or carelessly.
Category: Verb Phrase

1225–75; ME fol, fool < OF fol < L follis bellows, bag

foolful(n.)

an English dessert of crushed, cooked fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold:
gooseberry fool.
Category: British, Cooking

1590–1600

fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool(noun)
a person who lacks good judgment
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug(noun)
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
jester, fool, motley fool(verb)
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
fool, gull, befool(verb)
make a fool or dupe of
fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away(verb)
spend frivolously and unwisely
"Fritter away one's inheritance"
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!"
horse around, arse around, fool around, fool(verb)
indulge in horseplay
"Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

fool(noun)ful
sb whose actions are not sensible or wise
I was a fool to believe anything she said.
foolful
to behave in a way that makes you seem silly or stupid
I'll sing and try not to make a fool of myself.
foolful
to cause sb to seem stupid
He felt the other boys had made a fool out of him.
fool(verb)ful
to trick or deceive
Don't be fooled into thinking you'll earn lots of money here.

fool(Noun)
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
fool(Noun)
A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
fool(Noun)
Someone who very much likes something specified.
fool(Noun)
A type of dessert made of puru00E9ed fruit and custard or cream.
fool(Noun)
A particular card in a tarot deck.
fool(Verb)
To trick; to make a fool of someone.

Origin: See English fool.

Fool(noun)
a compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool
Fool(noun)
one destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural
Fool(noun)
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
Fool(noun)
one who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person
Fool(noun)
one who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments
Fool(verb)
to play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth
Fool(verb)
to infatuate; to make foolish
Fool(verb)
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

fool
As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to describe a person with a native incapacity to reason correctly, or a clown. Indeed, in hackish experience many fools are capable of reasoning all too effectively in executing their errors. See also cretin, loser, fool file.The Algol 68-R compiler used to initialize its storage to the character string "F00LF00LF00LF00L..." because as a pointer or as a floating point number it caused a crash, and as an integer or a character string it was very recognizable in a dump. Sadly, one day a very senior professor at Nottingham University wrote a program that called him a fool. He proceeded to demonstrate the correctness of this assertion by lobbying the university (not quite successfully) to forbid the use of Algol on its computers. See also DEADBEEF.