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Entries releated to FOOL

 

ADDLE PATE		An inconsiderate foolish fellow.
APRIL FOOL		Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool. This is also practised in Scotland under the title of Hunting the Gowke.
BALLOCKS		The testicles of a man or beast; also a vulgar nick name for a parson. His brains are in his ballocks, a cant saying to designate a fool.
BEN		A fool.
BENISH		Foolish.
CAKE, or CAKEY		A foolish fellow.
CHUB		He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion to a fish of that name, easily taken.
COG		A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth.
COKES		The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair: perhaps a contraction of the word COXCOMB.
CORK-BRAINED		Light-headed, foolish.
COXCOMB		Anciently, a fool. Fools, in great families, wore a cap with bells, on the top of which was a piece of red cloth, in the shape of a cock's comb. At present, coxcomb signifies a fop, or vain self-conceited fellow.
CULLY		A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead.
DEEP-ONE		A thorough-paced rogue, a sly designing fellow: in opposition to a shallow or foolish one.
FOOL		A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler.
FOOL FINDER		A bailiff.
FOOLISH		An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash?
GABBY		A foolish fellow.
GAMON		To humbug. To deceive, To tell lies. What rum gamon the old file pitched to the flat; how finely the knowing old fellow humbugged the fool.
GARRET, or UPPER STORY		The head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool.
GRINAGOG, THE CAT'S UNCLE		A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason.
HOB OR NOB		Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. This foolish custom is said to have originated in the days of good queen Bess, thus: when great chimnies were in fashion, there was at each corner of the hearth, or grate, a small elevated projection, called the hob; and behind it a seat. In winter time the beer was placed on the hob to warm: and the cold beer was set on a small table, said to have been called the nob; so that the question, Will you have hob or nob? seems only to have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? i.e. beer from the hob, or beer from the nob.
HONEY MOON		The first month after marriage. A poor honey; a harmless, foolish, goodnatured fellow. It is all honey or a t - d with them; said of persons who are either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either kissing or fighting.
JACK ADAMS		A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
JACOB		A soft fellow. A fool.
MUD		A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG.
NICKUMPOOP, or NINCUMPOOP		A foolish fellow; also one who never saw his wife's cunt.
NODDY		A simpleton or fool. Also a kind of low cart, with a seat before it for the driver, used in and about Dublin, in the manner of a hackney coach: the fare is just half that of a coach, for the same distance; so that for sixpence one may have a set down, as it is called, of a mile and half, and frequently a tumble down into the bargain: it is called a noddy from the nutation of its head. Knave noddy; the old-fashioned name for the knave of trumps.
NOKES		A ninny, or fool. John-a-Nokes and Tom-a-Stiles; two honest peaceable gentlemen, repeatedly set together by the ears by lawyers of different denominations: two fictitious names formerly used in law proceedings, but now very seldom, having for several years past been supplanted by two other honest peaceable gentlemen, namely, John Doe and Richard Roe.
PAPER SCULL		A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
PENNY-WISE AND POUND FOOLISH		Saving in small matters, and extravagant in great.
RALPH SPOONER		A fool.
RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES		A bull beggar, or scarechild, with which foolish nurses terrify crying brats.
ROCKED		He was rocked in a stone kitchen; a saying meant to convey the idea that the person spoken of is a fool, his brains having been disordered by the jumbling of his cradle.
RUM CULL		A rich fool, easily cheated, particularly by his mistress.
RUM MAWND		One that counterfeits a fool.
SAMMY		Foolish. Silly.
SAPSCULL		A simple fellow. Sappy; foolish.
SHARPER		A cheat, one that lives by his wits. Sharpers tools; a fool and false dice.
SIMKIN		A foolish fellow.
SIMPLETON		Abbreviation of simple Tony or Anthony, a foolish fellow.
SINGLETON		A very foolish fellow; also a particular kind of nails.
SLEEVELESS ERRAND		A fool's errand, in search of what it is impossible to find.
SQUEEZE WAX		A good-natured foolish fellow, ready to become security for another, under hand and seal.
SQUIRISH		Foolish.
SUCK		To pump. To draw from a man all be knows. The file sucked the noodle's brains: the deep one drew out of the fool all he knew.
UPPER STORY, or GARRET		Figuratively used to signify the head. His upper story or garrets are unfurnished; i.e. he is an empty or foolish fellow.
WINDMILLS IN THE HEAD		Foolish projects.
WINDY		Foolish. A windy fellow; a simple fellow.
WISEACRE		A foolish conceited fellow.
WIT		He has as much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman.