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tomfool

[ tom-fool ]

/ ˈtɒmˈful /

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noun

a grossly foolish or stupid person; a silly fool.

adjective

being or characteristic of a tomfool.

Origin of tomfool

1325–75; Middle English Thome fole Tom the fool

OTHER WORDS FROM tomfool

tom·fool·ish, adjective tom·fool·ish·ness, noun

Words nearby tomfool

tomcat, tomcod, tome, tomentose, tomentum, tomfool, tomfoolery, tomism, tomium, tomlinson, tommasini

Example sentences from the Web for tomfool

You want genius, my boy, to make a tomfool of yourself like this,' and he looked himself proudly up and down.

The History of David Grieve |Mrs. Humphry Ward
Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in.

"Carrots:" |Mrs. Molesworth
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
Dorcas objected to this name, but Tabitha remarked sagely that at any rate it was better than "Tomfool."

Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales |Henry Rider Haggard

This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day.

Letters to His Children |Theodore Roosevelt

British Dictionary definitions for tomfool

tomfool

/ (ˌtɒmˈfuːl) /

noun

a fool
(as modifier)tomfool ideas

Derived forms of tomfool

tomfoolish, adjective tomfoolishness, noun

Word Origin for tomfool

C14: from tom 1 + fool 1