Wikisaurus:fool
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[edit] English
[edit] Noun
[edit] Sense: (pejorative) fool; person with poor judgment or little intelligence
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[edit] Colloquialisms or slang
- berk (British)
- Charlie (British, Australian)
- chump
- dim bulb
- dingleberry
- dolt
- doofus
- dope
- dullard
- dumbbell
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- ha'porth (dated British)
- jerk (US)
- lamebrain
- nimrod
- nincompoop (somewhat dated)
- nit
- nitwit
- not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- numbskull
- pinhead
- plonker (British)
- prat (British)
- schmuck (Yiddish)
- sot (dated)
- tool [WS] (Australian)
- wally (British)
- wantwit
[edit] Taboo slang
[edit] Others
[edit] Hypernyms
[edit] Verb
[edit] Sense: to fool
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Formal
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification
- 4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- 4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 499. “Imbecility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- 501. “Fool” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas
- 4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- “fool” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
