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Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

If Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848

What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.

Chapter XIV 2010

And you don't need much strategy, so you don't have to buy one of those tomfool microphone headsets.

Channel Your Inner Net Jackass in Team Fortress 2 2007

And you don't need much strategy, so you don't have to buy one of those tomfool microphone headsets.

Channel Your Inner Net Jackass in 'Team Fortress 2' 2007

Only one of them, a little man with a wrathful air, in a sheepskin coat wide open, and a lambswool cap pulled right over his eyes, on coming up to the gingerbread man, suddenly inquired: ‘How much is the gingerbread, you tomfool?’

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

I gave each a mocking salute, driven by I don't know what tomfool bravado.

The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

"Why do you let that great tomfool call you by your first name, Mary?" he demanded, almost before the front door was shut.

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

I had just got as far as that, when the gentleman said "Pshaw!" and then he told me to run off, and not come into the church again to tomfool -- that's what he said.

Odd Amy le Feuvre

I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.

Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban