fool – English noun declension

English noun forms of fool

Noun: fool
Singularfool
Pluralfools

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:]
  • No man is always a fool, every man is sometimes. [1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:]
  • 'If I coloured at all, Mr Edward,' said Joe, 'which I didn't know I did, it was to think I should have been such a fool as ever to have any hope of her. She’s as far out of my reach as—as Heaven is.' [1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 13.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:]
  • If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  • ⁠Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools [1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—:]
  • You're just a poor misguided fool
  • Who thinks they know what I should do
  • A line for me and a line for you
  • I lose my right to a point of view. [2001, Starsailor, “Poor Misguided Fool”:]
  • And every time I'm meant to be acting sensible
  • You drift into my head
  • And turn me into a crumbling fool. [2008, Adele, Crazy for You:]
  • I like that you're broken
  • Broken like me
  • Maybe that makes me a fool [2017 April 13, Mitchy Collins, Samantha Derosa, Christian Medice, “Broken”, in Finding It Hard to Smile, performed by Lovelytheband:]
  • 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants
  • This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
  • Such clouds of nameless trouble cross
  • ⁠All night below the darken’d eyes;
  • ⁠With morning wakes the will, and cries,
  • ‘Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.’ [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
  • Can they think me […] their fool or jester? [1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:]
  • I'm a fool for the city. [1975, Foghat, "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album)]
  • Upon opening the door, Trech was suddenly drawn aback by the shocking presence of the armed goon standing directly in front of him. “Yo, what up fool? […]” [2010, G.C. Deuce, From the Gutter to the Grave: An American Hood Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 291:]
  • “What up, fool?” he finally responded. “Not too much; fell asleep watching your boys get their asses kicked,” I told him, referring to the Carolina Cougars, the last team he played for before he got sick. [2012, Peron Long, Livin' Ain't Easy, Urban Books, →ISBN:]
  • Fame leaves out the house and walks to the BP gas station on Alabama Avenue. On the way there he sees his man Mark posted up at the rec center and walks over to holla at him. “What’s up fool?” Mark says while dapping Fame up. [2014, Hitta Lo, Bracing Season I, Kaleidoscopic Publishing, →ISBN:]
  • “What up fool?” Lil Slim said noticing the seriousness in Lil Kilo’s voice. “You ain’t switched up on us have you.” Lil Fresh looked at Lil Kilo like where that come from. “Nigga I’ll neva switch up.” Lil Slim said feeling a little offended. [2018, Keith L. Bell, Drought Season Over: The Sequel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'fol', French Nouns 'fou', Latin Nouns 'follis', Old English Nouns 'dwæs'.

Verbs referencing "fool"

French Nouns fou.