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Meanings of tomfool in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
talòs

A person who lacks good judgment.

        idiota
        Usage of tomfool in English
        1
        Oh, you needn't ask me to believe that tomfool tale, old chap!
        The Keeper of the Door
        2
        That tomfool letter we sent ruined whatever chance I had left.
        Cabbages and Kings
        3
        You tomfool, you, why don't you take that turban off?
        The Last Chronicle of Barset
        4
        I've never seen you or your insolent tomfool bills.
        The Club of Queer Trades
        5
        That's what comes of all that tomfool business.
        Falk: A Reminiscence
        6
        It's women's tomfool dressing keeps us all down.
        The Wrong Twin
        7
        Man, stop this tomfool mummery, and explain yourself!
        The Lamp in the Desert
        8
        This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day.
        Letters to His Children
        9
        He would call it all tomfool nonsense.
        The Amazing Interlude
        10
        Appears like one of their tomfool superstitions.
        Island Nights' Entertainments
        11
        It's all hot air and tomfool theory.
        The Vision Splendid
        12
        What a dog I was-whata green-horn-whata careless, fat-headed tomfool to leave him alone like that!
        The Ivory Trail
        13
        And you don't need much strategy, so you don't have to buy one of those tomfool microphone headsets.
        Wired
        14
        But he is a tomfool.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        15
        For the love of God come round here this instant and deliver me from the clutches of a tomfool A.P.M.
        Mr. Standfast
        16
        What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.
        Burning Daylight
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