(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
(n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
Example Sentences:
(1) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(2) How opiates became the love of my life | Alisha Choquette Read more The numbers are not specific to the type of drug used, but we’d be fools to think opiates don’t lead the list.
(3) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(4) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(6) "So don't be fooled again: you cannot afford Labour.
(7) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(8) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(9) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
(10) It's Jane Austen all over again, and we've just fooled ourselves that the complicated financial system has changed a thing.
(11) No sufferer of fools, he also found it difficult to put up with what he felt to be the arrogance of some colleagues.
(12) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(13) Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning Read more “When the Dakota Access Pipeline breaks (and we know that too many pipelines do), millions of people will have crude-oil-contaminated water … don’t let the automatic sink faucets in your homes fool you – that water comes from somewhere, and the second its source is contaminated, so is your bathtub, and your sink, and your drinking liquid.
(14) He has been declared "a Shakespearean fool, the only one who can say what others can't" and "an antidote to the proliferation of neo-Nazi movements which took hold of Hungary and Greece".
(15) It helps to make testing fun, capitalizes on the student's natural tendency to fool around, and teaches something in the process.
(16) 7.44pm BST The April Fools' Day jokes have slowed as people actually get back to work, so we're going to sign off.
(17) He said: "To people of a certain age, Stuart Hall will be known as the presenter of It's A Knockout, a good-natured TV programme in which members of the public cheerfully made fools of themselves on camera.
(18) Although his finance minister François Baroin pledged on Friday night that there would be no more "austerity measures", only a fool, or someone who expected to be out of office later this year, would promise otherwise.
(19) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
(20) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.
Funge
Definition:
(n.) A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog.
(2) Ho-fung Hung, of Johns Hopkins University in the US, grew up in Hong Kong and follows its politics.
(3) 262, 10839-10847) reported that mAb 4A interacts with T alpha at the carboxyl-terminal peptide, whereas Fung and co-workers (Navon, S. E., and Fung, B. K.-k. (1988) J. Biol.
(4) Paul Oakenfold: In 1987, two friends of mine, Ian St Paul and Trevor Fung, were working out in Ibiza, so I decided to have my 24th birthday there and invite some other friends - Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker.
(5) The move comes just ahead of a formal court battle which Isohunt, set up by Gary Fung of Canada, was certain to lose.
(6) 250, 246; Perutz, M.F., Sanders, J.K.M., Chenery, D.H., Noble, R.W., Penelly, R.R., Fung, L.W.-M., Ho, C., Giannini, I., Porschke, D. and Winkler, H. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 3640).
(7) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog before the shutdown.
(8) (Y. K. Fung, A. L. Murphree, A. Tang, J. Qian, S. H. Hinrichs, and W. F. Benedict, Science 236:1657-1661, 1987) but did confirm the presence of a truncated transcript in the RB cell line Y79.
(9) Temperature-sensitive mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that are defective in the biosynthesis of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate are known to accumulate disaccharide precursor(s) of lipid A at 42 degrees C (Rick, P. D., Fung, L. W.-M., Ho, C., and Osborn, M. J.
(10) U.S.A. 87, 5873-5877; Yamane, H. K., Farnsworth, C. C., Xie, H., Howald, W., Fung, B. K-K., Clarke, S., Gelb, M. H., and Glomset, J.
(11) A US court had ruled against a defence offered by Fung in March, using the same finding that had led to the closure of the peer-to-peer music- and film-sharing system Grokster.
(12) There was a record-breaking amount of people casting their ballots this year,” the Electoral Affairs Commission chairman, Barnabus Fung, told reporters on Monday.
(13) On the first night of the holiday we bumped into Trevor Fung, a London DJ working out in Ibiza, who told us about Amnesia and this new drug called ecstasy.
(14) Zhang Dejiang, who heads the leading group on Hong Kong affairs, said that copying a foreign electoral system could "become a democracy trap … and possibly bring a disastrous result", Ma Fung-kwok, a delegate at Thursday's closed-door meeting, told Reuters .
(15) The alveolar septa capillaries in control rats were shown to form a network the parameters ow which rather correspond to the "sheet-blow" model (Fung and Sobin, 1969).
(16) The polynomial description of Evans and Fung and strain energy expressions introduced by Zarda et al.
(17) 262, 10839-10847) and the amino terminus (Navon, S.E., and Fung, B.K.-K. (1988) J. Biol.
(18) The mathematical aspects of the problem of the interpretation of the experimental data on the viscoelastic behaviour of materials by making use of the linear and quasi-linear relaxation model proposed by Fung, are considered.
(19) Previous high resolution proton NMR data on human erythrocyte spectrin molecules has indicated the existence of regions exhibiting rapid internal motions within the intact molecules [L. W.-M. Fung, H.-Z.
(20) 43, 1585] and the partial sequence deduced by Van Dop and co-workers from cDNA [Van Dop, C., Medynski, D., Sullivan, K., Wu, A. M., Fung, B. K.-K. & Bourne, H. R. (1984) Biochem.