fool

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• Fool

  ·vt To <<Infatuate>>; to make foolish. II. Fool ·noun One who acts contrary to moral and religious ...

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• fool

  A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Fool-born

  ·adj Begotten by a fool. ...

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• Fool-happy

  ·adj Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. ...

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• Fool-hasty

  ·adj Foolishly hasty. ...

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• Fool-large

  ·adj Foolishly liberal. ...

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• Fool-largesse

  ·noun Foolish expenditure; waste. ...

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• april fool

  Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fool finder

  A bailiff. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fool-fish

  (Genus, monocanthus. Cuvier.) The popular name of the long-finned file-fish. "Our fishermen apply to...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• fool-fish

  A name of the long-finned file-fish, and so called from its apparently whimsical manner of swimming....

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