fool | Lernwerd

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1.A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- No man is always a fool, every man is sometimes.
- The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
2.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.
- I was a fool to trust you.
- I could never fool you.
3.Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.(informal)
- Can they think me […] their fool or jester?
- I'm a fool for the city.
4.Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- I was a fool to trust you.
- I could never fool you.

1.To trick; to deceive.
- Liara: Do not be fooled by these civilized surroundings. This is a place of secrets and lies.
- There appears to be no process of gradually fooling oneself while degrading standards so characteristic of the Solid Rocket Booster or Space Shuttle Main Engine safety systems.
- 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.
2.To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
- She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible committee. And that me and Jimmy fool more than we work.

1.Foolish.(informal)
- Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook.

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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.