Noun: foolhardy
| Singular | foolhardy |
| Plural | foolhardies |
Sample Sentences
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Resentful of the saddle-fast stranger, eight foolhardies return for more adventure. [1977, Rolf R. Mueller, Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, page 26:]
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Some foolhardies in the schoolhouse laughed at him then and Griff stuck their heads into toilets, one by one over the next week. [2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys:]
Nouns inflected like foolhardy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, from Old French fol hardi (“foolishly bold”), from Old French fol (“foolish, silly; insane, mad”) (from Latin follis (“bellows; purse, sack; inflated ball; belly, paunch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + Old French hardi (“durable, hardy, tough”) (past tense of hardir (“to harden”), from the unattested Frankish *hartjan, from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard; brave”)), equivalent to fool + hardy. Compare fool-bold, fool-large, etc. See: Latin Nouns '
follis'.