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foolship en · NOUN

Etymology

From fool + -ship.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The condition of being a fool; foolishness; folly
   • Of old, your Fool did make your sage one tremble; but my foolship hath not found it so. 1832, William Henry Ireland, Vortigern:
   • The devil on your foolship! — Oh, I must walk the dark foggy way that spits fire and brimstone. 1833, James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, The dramatic works and poems of James Shirley:
2. (humorous, often, uncountable, usually) Used as a title or a form of address for a foolish person
   • [...] But has only bamboozel'd by scratches and knocks / A set of old wives, silly peers, and mad bucks, / Who willing to try what their foolships could do / [...] 1965, Douglas Grant, The Cock Lane Ghost:
   • To this Philip replied, “We give your Foolship to know that in temporals we are subject to no person.” 1895, History of Monetary Systems
   • “Precisely. And no Sir about it, half-boy, half-man. Deegan will do. Or your foolship." 1994, Elizabeth Winthrop, The Battle for the Castle:

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