fool
/ful/ nom A2En français : andouille, abruti, couillon, dinde
- A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. · You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.· The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
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Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue.
But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?”
“‘I wonder if that farmer thought to fool me in this clumsy manner.
“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
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