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Word entry · 4 letters

fool

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"Jester"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /fuːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted flooStarts with FEnds with L2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. indulge in horseplay

Word origin

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.

Used in a sentence

  • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
  • The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
  • Erasmus, [...] saide wiselie that experience is the common scholehouse of foles, and ill men: Men of witte and honestie, be otherwise instructed.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Jester4 letters
02Silly person4 letters

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