fool

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /fʊu(l)/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. derogatory
    — You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
  2. A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
    — an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
  3. A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). historical
    — 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
  4. 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.
  5. Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
    — Such clouds of nameless trouble cross ⁠All night below the darken’d eyes; ⁠With morning wakes the will, and cries, ‘Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.’
  6. Someone who derives pleasure from something specified. informal
    — Can they think me […] their fool or jester?
  7. An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man. slang
    — Upon opening the door, Trech was suddenly drawn aback by the shocking presence of the armed goon standing directly in front of him. “Yo, what up fool? […]”
  8. A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
  9. A tankie. derogatory,slang
动词 v.
  1. To trick; to deceive. transitive
    — 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. intransitive
    — 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar Is this a time for fooling?
  3. To make a fool of; to make act the fool. archaic
    — They fool me to the top of my bent.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

fools plural fools present,singular,third-person fooling participle,present fooled participle,past fooled past fooler comparative more fool comparative foolest superlative most fool superlative fools plural

词汇关系

近义词
alcatote asshat arsehole asshole bayard berk birdbrain blither bobchin bonehead bozo buffoon brickhead Charlie chucklehead chowderhead chump clart clown der-brain dill pickle dim bulb dimwit dingleberry dipshit dipstick dirtbrain div divvo divvy dolt donk doodle doofus dope dork dote dotterel dullard dumbass dumbbell dumbo dumb fuck dummy dunce dunderhead fathead fenderhead fiddle fuckwit fuzznut geck gig gink goober gooseberry gowk gubbins gump ha'p'orth Homer Simpson ignoramus imbecile jamoke jerk jerkoff jolterhead jolthead juggins jughead knucklehead lamebrain mameluke (US (Italian-American) slang) maroon meathead mong moron mug muggins mushhead nimrod nincompoop nit nitwit not the sharpest knife in the drawer numskull numps numpty nupson oaf pillock pinhead plonker prat retard shit for brains shithead shitwit schmo schmuck smooth brain snapperhead softhead sot stupid sucker thickhead tonto tool tosser tosspot tubelight twat twerp twit wally wantwit wazzock yampy
反义词
sage
上位词
dotard git mentally deficient person
衍生词
act a fool act the fool a fool and his money are soon parted April-fool April fool April Fools' Day archfool audiophool cut the fool damnfool fat as a fool flannelled fool fool away fooldom foolery fooless foolfish fool for Christ fool-hearted fool-heartedly fool-heartedness foolhood foolify fooligan foolish fool killer foollike foolocracy foolometer foolosophy foolproof fool rack fool-saint fool's cap fool's crutch fool's errand fool's fool fool's gold foolship fool's mushroom foolsome fool's paradise fool to oneself fossil fool greater fool theory holy fool jack-fool Lord Mayor's fool make a fool of make a fool out of motley fool natural fool nobody's fool no one's fool play for a fool play the fool suffer fools gladly superfool tavern fool there's no fool like an old fool tomfool
相关词
glaik halfwit idiot retarded foolish insane jester

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From French fouler (“to trample”).
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