fooling away
noun
1.
a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
2.
a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool.
3.
a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.
4.
an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usually preceded by a present participle): He's just a dancing fool.
5.
a weak-minded or idiotic person.
verb (used with object)
6.
to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
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verb (used without object)
Verb phrases 7.
to act like a fool; joke; play.
8.
to jest; pretend; make believe: I was only fooling.
9.
fool around,
a.
to putter aimlessly; waste time: She fooled around all through school.
b.
to philander or flirt.
c.
to be sexually promiscuous, especially to engage in adultery.
10.
fool away, to spend foolishly, as time or money; squander: to fool away the entire afternoon.
11.
Idioms fool with, to handle or play with idly or carelessly: to be hurt while fooling with a loaded gun; to fool with someone's affections.
12.
be nobody's fool, to be wise or shrewd.
Related forms
un·fooled, adjective
un·fool·ing, adjective
well-fooled, adjective
Synonyms
1. simpleton, dolt, dunce, blockhead, numskull, ignoramus, dunderhead, ninny, nincompoop, booby, saphead, sap. 2. zany, clown. 5. moron, imbecile, idiot. 6. delude, hoodwink, cheat, gull, hoax, cozen, dupe, gudgeon.
1. simpleton, dolt, dunce, blockhead, numskull, ignoramus, dunderhead, ninny, nincompoop, booby, saphead, sap. 2. zany, clown. 5. moron, imbecile, idiot. 6. delude, hoodwink, cheat, gull, hoax, cozen, dupe, gudgeon.
Antonyms
1. genius.
1. genius.
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fool1 (fuːl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 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. | (Caribbean) form the fool to play the fool or behave irritatingly |
| 6. | no fool a wise or sensible person |
| 7. | play the fool, act the fool to deliberately act foolishly; indulge in buffoonery |
| —vb (foll by away) | |
| 8. | (tr) to deceive (someone), esp in order to make him or her look ridiculous |
| 9. | informal (intr; |
| 10. | (intr) to speak or act in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner |
| 11. | to squander; fritter: he fooled away a fortune |
| 12. | (US) fool along to move or proceed in a leisurely way |
| —adj | |
| 13. | informal short for foolish |
| [C13: from Old French fol mad person, from Late Latin follis empty-headed fellow, from Latin: bellows; related to Latin flāre to blow] | |
| fool2 (fuːl) | |
| —n | |
| chiefly (Brit) a dessert made from a purée of fruit with cream or custard: gooseberry fool | |
| [C16: perhaps from | |
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Word Origin & History
fool
late 13c., from O.Fr. fol "madman, insane person," also an adj. meaning "mad, insane," from L. follis "bellows, leather bag," in V.L. used with a sense of "windbag, empty-headed person" (see follicle). Cf. also Skt. vatula- "insane," lit. "windy, inflated with wind."
"The word has in mod.Eng. a much stronger sense than it had at an earlier period; it has now an implication of insulting contempt which does not in the same degree belong to any of its synonyms, or to the derivative foolish." [OED]Meaning "jester, court clown" first attested late 14c., though it is not always possible to tell whether the reference is to a professional entertainer or an amusing lunatic on the payroll. As the name of a kind of custard dish, it is attested from 1590s (the food was also called trifle, which may be the source of the name). The verb meaning "to make a fool of" is recorded from 1590s. Related: Fooled; fooling. As an adjective, fool foolish, silly is considered modern U.S. colloquial, but it is attested from early 13c. Feast of Fools (early 14c.), from M.L. festum stultorum) refers to the burlesque festival celebrated in some churches on New Year's Day in medieval times. Fool's gold "iron pyrite" is from 1882. Fool's paradise "state of illusory happiness" is from mid-15c. Fool around is 1875 in the sense of "pass time idly," 1970s in sense of "have sexual adventures." Foolosopher, a most useful insult, turns up in a 1549 translation of Erasmus. Fools ballocks is described in OED as an old name for the green-winged orchid.
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fool
n. 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.
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