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Meanings of tomfool in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
talòs

A person who lacks good judgment.

idiota
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Examples for "fool"
Examples for "fool"
1
This government tickles that itching palm, though people know it's fool's gold.
The Guardian
2
The wittiest person in the comedy is he that plays the fool.
Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
3
In my fool heart I did; and I do not know yet.
Son of Power
4
But fool I am; for I am in love with another woman.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
5
I was a fool to stop the motor; did it without thinking.
My Friend the Chauffeur
1
It's really quite fascinating how the sap responds to the undying water.
Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
2
Those gap-toothed shopping parades, emptiest in the poorest places, sap public confidence.
The Guardian
3
The sap of life swelled up again in him with new vigor.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
4
The poet feels the sap of the new year before the marsh-willow.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
5
Youth makes up in sap and push what it lacks in repose.
The Last Harvest
1
Is it going be muggins the taxpayer who picks up the bill again?
Radio NZ
2
He was a considerable muggins, and a great coward, in fact, a Yankee deserter.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
3
Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
4
PRISONERS don't have geese running around the donjon-keep to pull pens out of, you muggins.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
5
A minister's wife can't dance anything but the Virginia reel, nor play anything more than muggins.
The Brentons
1
The bombers move forward in extended order searching for the saphead.
The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
2
And so he came to the saphead, and cautiously peered in.
No Man's Land
3
A man throws a bomb into a saphead full of Huns.
No Man's Land
4
Then there's a man in the squad who is more than a mere saphead.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
5
Excuse me, gentlemen, if I do the saphead act-byjinks!
The Gates of Chance
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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