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Definition of 'fool'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) fool
a silly or stupid person.

2.  fool
a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of rank for amusement:
the court fool.

3.  fool
a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing silly or stupid:
to make a fool of someone.

4.  fool
an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usu. prec. by a present participle):
a dancing fool.

5. (v.t.) fool
to trick, deceive, or impose on:
They tried to fool us.

6. (v.i.) fool
to act like a fool; joke; play.

7.  fool
to jest; pretend; make believe:
I was only fooling.

8.  fool
fool around,

9.  fool
to putter aimlessly; waste time.

10.  fool
to trifle or flirt.

11.  fool
to be sexually promiscuous; engage casually in sexual activity.

12.  fool
fool away, to squander foolishly, as time or money.

13.  fool
fool with, to handle or play with idly or carelessly.

14. (n.) fool
an English dessert of crushed, cooked fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold:
gooseberry fool.

Etymology: (1590–1600)

Definition of 'fool'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool
a person who lacks good judgment

2. (noun) chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

3. (verb) jester, fool, motley fool
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

4. (verb) fool, gull, befool
make a fool or dupe of

5. (verb) fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
spend frivolously and unwisely
"Fritter away one's inheritance"

6. (verb) gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
fool or hoax
"The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

7. (verb) horse around, arse around, fool around, fool
indulge in horseplay
"Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

Definition of 'fool'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) fool
sb whose actions are not sensible or wise
I was a fool to believe anything she said.

2. fool
make a fool of yourself
to behave in a way that makes you seem silly or stupid
I'll sing and try not to make a fool of myself.

3. fool
make a fool (out) of sb
to cause sb to seem stupid
He felt the other boys had made a fool out of him.

4. (verb) fool
to trick or deceive
Don't be fooled into thinking you'll earn lots of money here.

Definition of 'fool'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) fool
a compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool

2. (noun) fool
one destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural

3. (noun) fool
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

4. (noun) fool
one who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person

5. (noun) fool
one who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments

6. (verb) fool
to play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth

7. (verb) fool
to infatuate; to make foolish

8. (verb) fool
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

Definitions of 'fool'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. 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.

Translation of 'fool'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person without sense or intelligence He is such a fool he never knows what to do.
Afrikaans: dwaas; gek	Arabic: أحْمَق	Bulgarian: глупак
Brazilian: tolo	Czech: blázen	German: der Narr/die Närrin
Danish: fjols; nar	Greek: ηλίθιος	Spanish: tonto, imbécil
Estonian: tobu	Farsi: آدم احمق	Finnish: typerys
French: fou, folle	Hebrew: טִיפֵּש	Hindi: मूर्ख
Croatian: budala, luda	Hungarian: bolond	Indonesian: orang bodoh
Icelandic: bjáni, heimskingi	Italian: sciocco	Japanese: 愚か者
Korean: 바보	Lithuanian: kvailys	Latvian: muļķis
Malay: bodoh	Dutch: dwaas	Norwegian: fjols, idiot, tosk, narr
Polish: głupiec	Persian: آدم احمق	Pashto: بی عقله
Portuguese: tolo	Romanian: nătărău; nebun	Russian: дурак
Slovak: blázon	Slovenian: norec	Serbian: budala
Swedish: dåre, dumbom, tok	Thai: คนโง่	Turkish: aptal
Taiwanese: 傻子	Ukrainian: дурень	Urdu: احمق
Vietnamese: kẻ ngu đần	Chinese: 傻子
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