fool

Roget category 501

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#501. Fool

noun

fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling^†, dizzard^†, donkey, ass — ninny, ninnyhammer^† — chowderhead^†, chucklehead^† — dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby^†, hoddy-doddy^†, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy^†, owl — goose, goosecap^† — imbecile — gaby^† — radoteur^†, nincompoop, badaud^†, zany — trifler, babbler — pretty fellow — natural, niais^†.
child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
oaf, lout, loon, lown^†, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps^†, tony.
bull head, dunderhead, addlehead^†, blockhead, dullhead^†, loggerhead, jolthead^†, jolterhead^†, beetlehead^†, beetlebrain, grosshead^†, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead^† — numbskull, thickskull^† — lackbrain^†, shallowbrain^† — dimwit, halfwit, lackwit^† — dunderpate^† — lunkhead sawney [U.S.], gowk^† — clod, clod-hopper — clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate — bull calf — gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.] — men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.
un sot a triple etage [Fr.], sot — jobbernowl^†, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche^†.
dotard, driveler — old fogey, old woman, crock — crone, grandmother — cotquean^†, henhussy^†.
incompetent (insanity) 503.
greenhorn etc. (dupe) 547 — dunce etc. (ignoramus) 493 — lubber etc. (bungler) 701 — madman etc. 504.
one who will not set the Thames on fire — one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre [Fr.] — no conjuror.

phrase

fortuna favet fatuis [Lat.] — les fous font les festinas et les sages les les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent [Fr.] — nomina stultorum parietibus harrent [Lat.] — stultorum plena sunt omnia [Lat.] [Cicero].

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