fool : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes
  April Fools'; All Fools' day.
  

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All" Fools' Day`

Definitions

1. The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced.

   The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

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• noun the butt of a prank played on April 1st
  
• noun a practical joke or trick played on the first day of April
  

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• one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

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• See under April, Court, etc.

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• noun the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes
  April Fools'; All Fools' day.
  

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• noun the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes
  April Fools'; All Fools' day.
  

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• noun hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers
  Begonia cheimantha; Christmas begonia.
  

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• a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement.

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• verb indulge in horseplay
  arse around; fool; horse around.
  
  • Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!
  • The bored children were fooling about
• verb commit adultery
  play around.
  
  • he plays around a lot

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• verb spend frivolously and unwisely
  shoot; fool; fritter away; dissipate; frivol away; fritter.
  
  • Fritter away one's inheritance

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• noun a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
  dunce's cap; dunce cap.
  

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• a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.

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• noun a fruitless mission
  

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• an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking.

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• noun a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
  pyrite; iron pyrite.
  

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• iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.

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• noun straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
  false azalea; Menziesia ferruginea.
  

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• noun an illusory state of wellbeing
  

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• a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction.

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• noun European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten
  Aethusa cynapium; lesser hemlock.
  

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• (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.

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Fool"-born` adjective

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1. Begotten by a fool. Shak.

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Fool"-hap`py adjective

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1. Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. Obs. Spenser.

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Fool"-has`ty adjective

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1. Foolishly hasty. R.

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Fool"-large` adjective

Etymology

OF. follarge. See Fool, and Large.

Definitions

1. Foolishly liberal. Obs. Chaucer.

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Fool"-lar*gesse` noun

Etymology

See Fool-large, Largess.

Definitions

1. Foolish expenditure; waste. Obs. Chaucer.

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• . See lst Fool.

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• noun a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
  fool; jester.
  

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• to take him for a fool .

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• to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

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• to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. Colloq.

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• to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.

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