From en.wiktionary.org:
[Fool]
** English
[fool (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en] (cf. modern [fr]) from [en].[1] [en]. Displaced
native [ang].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
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**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A person with poor judgment or little intelligence .
2. * [passage=Erasmus, [ ... ] saide wiselie that experience is the common scholehouse of FOLES , and ill men: Men of witte and honestie, be otherwise instructed.]
3. * [letter=52]
4. * [chapter=13]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1895 | author=w:Rudyard Kipling | title= Basa Sunda: Rewards and Fairies/If—
|passage=If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br>Twisted by knaves
to make a trap for FOOLS}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] A jester ; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
5. * 1896 , Frederick Peterson IN _Popular Science Monthly_ Volume 50 December 1896 , _Idiots Savants_
6. *: This court FOOL could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
7. [en] [en] 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 expectation s.
8. Someone who has been made a fool of or trick ed; dupe .
9. * [IV]
10. [en] Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
11. * [passage=Can they think me [...] their FOOL or jester?]
12. * 1975 , 吴语: Foghat , "Fool for the City" (song), _Fool for the City_ (album):
13. *: I'm a FOOL for the city.
14. [en] [An informal greeting akin to buddy , dude , or man .]
15. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2010 |author=G.C. Deuce |title=From the Gutter to the Grave: An
American Hood Novel |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781469118901
|page=291 |passage=Upon opening the door, Trech was suddenly drawn aback by
the shocking presence of the armed goon standing directly in front of him.
“Yo, what up FOOL? [...]”}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Peron Long | title=Livin' Ain't Easy | publisher=Urban Books | isbn=9781599832746
|passage=“What up, FOOL?” he finally responded. “Not too much; fell asleep
watching your boys get their asses kicked,” I told him, referring to the
Carolina Cougars, the last team he played for before he got sick.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2014 | author=Hitta Lo | title=Bracing Season I | publisher=Kaleidoscopic Publishing | isbn=9781942944386
|passage=Fame leaves out the house and walks to the BP gas station on Alabama
Avenue. On the way there he sees his man Mark posted up at the rec center and
walks over to holla at him. “What’s up FOOL?” Mark says while dapping Fame
up.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2018 | author=Keith L. Bell | title=Drought Season Over: The Sequel | publisher=Xlibris Corporation | isbn=9781984509956
|passage=“What up FOOL?” Lil Slim said noticing the seriousness in Lil Kilo’s
voice. “You ain’t switched up on us have you.” Lil Fresh looked at Lil Kilo
like where that come from. “Nigga I’ll neva switch up.” Lil Slim said feeling
a little offended.}}
1. [en] A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester .
***** Synonyms
- [person with poor judgment] See also Thesaurus:fool
- [person who entertained a sovereign] [en] , [en]
- [person who has been made a fool of] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [person who derives pleasure from something specified] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|act a
fool|foolhood|foolify|fooligan|foollike|foolocracy|foolship|foolsome |act the
fool|superfool |a fool and his money are soon parted |April-fool |April fool
|April Fools' Day |archfool |audiophool |cut the fool |damnfool |fat as a fool
|flannelled fool |fool away |fooldom |foolery |fooless |foolfish |fool for
Christ |fool-hearted |fool-heartedly |fool-heartedness |foolhood |foolish
|fool killer |foolometer |foolosophy |foolproof |fool rack |fool-saint |fool's
cap |fool's crutch |fool's errand |fool's fool |fool's gold |fool's mushroom
|fool's paradise |fool to oneself |fossil fool |greater fool theory |holy fool
|jack-fool |Lord Mayor's fool |make a fool of |make a fool out of |motley fool
|natural fool |nobody's fool |no one's fool |play for a fool |play the fool
|suffer fools gladly |tavern fool |there's no fool like an old fool |tomfool
}}
***** Translations
[person with poor judgement or little intelligence]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aghwan: [xag]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast] , [ast]
- Avar: [av] , [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et] , [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [slang] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [colloquial] , [fi] [colloquial] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] [informal] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [woman] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [Quebec, informal] , [fr] [informal]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] [female] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu] , [gu] [slang]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] [familiar] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv] , [lv] , [lv] , [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Old Norse: [non] , [non]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [Brazil] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] [Brazil, colloquial, derogatory]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [female] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [male] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian:
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si] , [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl] , [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , Americanisms: [es] / [es] , [es] [disused] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tocharian A: [xto]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi] , [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[jester]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [slang] [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[stock character]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[one who derives pleasure from something specified]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[dessert]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] [with fruit] , [fi] [with berries]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[tarot card]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To trick ; to deceive .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1918 | author=Florence White Williams | title=The Little Red Hen
|passage=She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way
whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red
Hen might easily be FOOLED by its appearance.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolish ly.
4. * 1681/1682 , [John Dryden] , _The Spanish Fryar_
5. *: Is this a time for FOOLING ?
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1972 | author=Judy Blume | title=Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | page=56
|passage=She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible
committee. And that me and Jimmy FOOL more than we work.}}
1. [en] To make a fool of; to make act the fool .
2. * c. 1599 to 1601 , [William Shakespeare] , _Hamlet_ , III.ii.384:
3. *: They FOOL me to the top of my bent.
***** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deceive
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=Terms derived from the verb _fool_
|befool|unfooled|foolability|misfool |fool about |fool around |fool me once,
shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me |foolable |fooler |more fool you|fool
along |outfool |unfool |unfooled |fool up|fool with}}
***** Translations
[to trick; to make a fool of someone]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] ; [fi] [colloquial] , [fi] [colloquial] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [colloquial] [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [colloquial] [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [colloquial] [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] s..o., [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [colloquial, lit.: "to inflate"]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to play the fool, to act silly]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Maori: [mi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
**** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Foolish .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1909 | author=Gene Stratton-Porter | title=A Girl of the Limberlost
|passage=Of all the FOOL, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that
begins by deceiving her, is the FOOLEST a sane woman ever undertook.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Gayle Kaye | title=Sheriff Takes a Bride
|passage=That was a FOOL thing to do. You could have gotten yourself shot}}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms derived from the adjective _fool_ |foolhardy|damnfool
|foolish }}
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A type of dessert made of purée d fruit and custard or cream .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1913 | journal=Pearson's Magazine | section=volume 36, part 2, page 373
|passage=Eton is renowned for its "messes," and "strawberry mess" is Empress
of them all, with raspberry mess as a very good second. It does not at all
convey the joys of a "mess" to say that it consists of iced fruit and cream,
and somewhat resembles a " FOOL." It is a thing apart, and should be
approached with bated breath and unimpaired capacity.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Lindsey Bareham | title=Just One Pot
|passage=Pellaprat [...] invented the dish [of Eton mess] when a load of
over-ripe strawberries needed eating up. His disguise was a fluff of whipped
cream and the FOOL was served with sponge fingers. Somewhere along the line,
someone else had the idea of stirring chunks of meringue into the FOOL at the
last moment.}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** References
References:
[1]. _fool_ in: T. F. Hoad, _Concise Dictionary of English Etymology_ , Oxford University Press, 2003, [9780192830982]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Middle English
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*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
**** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Rohingya
*** Etymology
From [rhg].
*** Noun
[rhg]
1. mad man