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- noun Archaic spelling of
fool . - verb Archaic spelling of
fool .
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Examples
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What an old doteing foole is this to part wth his money
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What an old doteing foole is this to part wth his money
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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My Lord, most certaine am I, that if it had beene publikely knowne, how none but your highnes, might serve for me to fixe my love on, I should have been termed the foole of all fooles: they perhaps beleeving, that I was forgetfull of my selfe, in being ignorant of mine owne condition, and much lesse of yours.
The Decameron 2004
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Such a man is no foole, meaning in deede that he is a very wise man.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Such a man is no foole, meaning in deede that he is a very wise man.
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Osmo was not a wealthy foole — the Baron was known as something of a pinchpfennig — so the jester's invention of the belled cap was driven by his need to stay solvent.
Osmo's Bells 2010
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This foole needs to sign up go to boot camp and volunteer for service in Iraq … and then see if that is worth a tempory bounce in the stock market ..
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No Mighty foole you must have ADD to think your right so much of the time when the policies yopu defend turn out soooooo badly ALL the time
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Not grasping at straws foole but simply commenting that a move for political purposes is simply that no matter what political party it comes from.
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(Purchas i. 120) speaks “of a kind of seed, whereof a little being eaten, maketh a man to turn foole, all things seeming to him to be metamorphosed.”
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