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foolsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From fool + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by foolishness or characteristic of a fool; foolish
   • Why din't you obey my summ'nin' sooner, you foolsome man? 2014, David Mitchell, David Mitchell: Three bestselling novels:
   • I would still look to the Catholic priests for a degree of insight, because I know that complete ignorance is truly bliss, and narrowmindedness the most foolsome tool of all. An open heart would promise an answer. 2013, Tommy Anthony, My Catechism:
   • But when she noticed me in the open doorway she stopped abruptly, and the parrot settled on her shoulder, becoming just as still. “You have caught me acting foolsome, Doctor,” she said. Her English is heavily accented and less than fluent. 2015, B. B. Oak, Thoreau in Phantom Bog:
   • The great Lord Burleigh has left it upon record in a letter to his son, that "no fool is more foolsome than a she-fool." We should be inclined to amend that ungallant saying, and to urge that no fool is really more foolsome than your humanitarian crank, [...] 1903, The Month, volume 102:

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