Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something by which fools may be gaged or measured.
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- noun humorous something that measures the level of
foolishness
Etymologies
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fool + -ometer
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Examples
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For an Archbishop of Canterbury has a public function to perform (has not Sydney Smith described a "foolometer"?) altogether independent of such reasonable and human functions as he may privately perform.
Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899
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She was also useful as a touchstone, as what her mother did not call a foolometer.
Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919
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Treatises in this Volume sufficiently show this bright side, and that to me, as foolometer of the Society, this dark side seemed to need showing.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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