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fool noun

  /fuːl/ , /fʊu(l)/
  • (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
 fou, bouffon
  • (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
 imbécile, idiot, dinde
  • (tarot, often, capitalized, _, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
 fou, mat
  • (literature) 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.
 personnage comique

fool verb

  /fuːl/ , /fʊu(l)/
  • (archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
 tromper, duper, rouler
fool around
faire l'imbécile, flâner, se la couler douce, traînailler
fool's gold
or des fous
holy fool
fol-en-Christ
fool's errand
chasse au dahu, course inutile
fool's parsley
petite ciguë
play the fool
faire l'andouille, faire l'idiot, faire l'imbécile, feindre l'ignorance, jouer au con
fool's mate
mat de l'imbécile, mat de l'écolier, mat du débutant, mat du lion, mat du sot
April fool
poisson d'avril
there's no fool like an old fool
on fait des sottises à tout âge, il n'y a que les imbéciles qui ne changent pas d'avis
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