Fool

Definition: Fool

Fool

Adjective

1. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books".

2. (informal) having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books".

Noun

1. A person who lacks good judgment.

2. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.

3. A professional clown employed to to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages.

Verb

1. Make a fool or dupe of.

2. Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".

3. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

4. Indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fool" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Computing

Biographical Satire

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fool

Absence or want of Intellect

Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-dead.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Dupe

Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.

Humorist

Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool.

Ignoramus

Lubber; (bungler); fool; pedant.

Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop,moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole.

Unskillfulness

Bungler; fool.

Crosswords: Fool

Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Break yourself, fool. (Friday; writing credit: D.J. Pooh, Ice Cube)

I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

A man without one is a fool. (The Avengers; writing credit: Don MacPherson. Based on the television series by Sydney Newman.)

That boy sure is a runnin' fool! (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Everybody plays the fool, sometime (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

The sentimental fool don't see (What A Fool Believes; performing artist: Doobie Brothers)

I was a fool with tha big boys breaking all tha rules (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

You know you can't fool me (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply)

And you can let some other fool sit down (Pop A Top; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

How did a fool and his money get together? (references; author: unknown)

Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool. (references; author: unknown)

The greatest fool of all is the man who fools himself. (references; author: unknown)

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. (references; author: unknown)

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. (references; author: unknown)

I'm No Fool with Electricity (1970)

The Tragic Diary of Zero the Fool (1969)

April Fool (1964)

I Thank a Fool (1962)

I'm No Fool as a Pedestrian (1956)

She's A Fool (performing artist: Lesley Gore)

Everybody Plays the Fool (performing artist: Main Ingredient)

The Fool on The Hill (performing artist: Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66)

What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am (performing artist: The Tams)

Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You (performing artist: Wilson Pickett)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• David And Tom Gardners Motley Fool Stock Advisor (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hero, Lover, Fool (reference)

• Nobody's Fool (reference)

• The Singing Fool (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• American Fool (reference)

• Don't Let the Smooth Jazz Fool You (reference)

• Fool Me Good (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Don't play the giddy fool. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alicia plays like an idiot, said Lewis brutally : the money she's lost -- like a fool. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salesman: But, my friend, with a tractor you could do twice as much work : Why, ye durn fool ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Everything's coming up roses -- as any fool can plainly see!. Credit: Library of Congress.

April fool!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ed Wynn, the perfect fool, in The chief His greatest entertainment on stage, screen or radio!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, author of Ivan the Terrible & Ivan the Fool. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mary Worth. "I'm really a fool for luck, John!". Credit: Library of Congress.

A fool of fortune by Martha Morton : presented by Wm. H. Crane and his admirable company. Credit: Library of Congress.

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time -- but you can't fool all of the people all the time ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine

Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took it off again

I was a fool.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue

A fool kills from hate

Fool, of thyself speak well

Better not fool with him.

O! I am Fortune’s fool.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

But don't let diabetic retinopathy fool you. It could get worse over the years and threaten your good vision. (references)

Business

Foreign interests disguised by domestic representatives, on the other hand, will not fool labor representatives and legislators. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

A corollary is that only a fool would offer one's best price, or anything close to it, early in negotiations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The fool grinds bitterly

The fool of Merodach

Fool

Fool

Expressions using "fool": a bit of a fool ♦ act like a fool ♦ act the fool ♦ April fool ♦ be a fool for one's pains ♦ bloody fool ♦ blungering fool ♦ born fool ♦ Court fool ♦ damned fool ♦ desperate fool ♦ fool about ♦ fool about with ♦ fool along ♦ fool around ♦ fool around with ♦ fool away ♦ fool away one's time ♦ fool duck ♦ fool file ♦ fool out of ♦ fool smb. into believing smth. ♦ fool smb. out of smth. ♦ fool to the top of one ♦ fool to the top of one's bent ♦ fool with ♦ Gooseberry fool ♦ he is a positive fool ♦ he is nobody's fool ♦ he represented me as a fool ♦ he's no fool ♦ he's nobody's fool ♦ little fool ♦ make a fool of ♦ make a fool of oneself ♦ make a fool of smb. ♦ make an April fool of ♦ nobody's fool ♦ none but a fool ♦ play the fool ♦ precious fool ♦ silly little fool ♦ stark fool ♦ stupid fool ♦ To beg one for a fool ♦ To fool away ♦ To make a fool of ♦ To play the fool ♦ very fool. Additional references.

Beginning with "fool": Fool-born, fool-gladly, Fool-happy, fool-hardy, Fool-hasty, Fool-in-christ, Fool-large, Fool-largesse, fool-proof, fool-proof camera, fool-proofed, fool-proofing.

Ending with "fool": damned-fool, damn-fool, foal-fool, raspberry-fool.

Containing "fool": april-fool smb., april-fool-day, blooming-fool begonia.

Afrikaans

beetneem (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, grapple, hoax, mystify, take, take in, trick), beethê (have, have got hold of, hoax, mystify, trick), bedot (hoax, mystify, trick). (various references)

Albanian

teveqel (dolt, dull, dummy, foolish, imbecile, innocent, noodle, simpleton, zany, zombie), pure frutash, mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), loço (booby, ninny, simpleton), idiot (ass, cretin, dizzy, idiot, idiotic, natural), i zoti (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, natty, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skillful), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), hiqem si budalla, budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless), bëj budallallëqe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏مزح (banter, banting, chaff, frolic, fun, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle), ‏مخبول (crack-brained, crazed, demented, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, potty, stupid, touched), ‏مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, dotty, insane, mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), ‏هرج (buffoon, fussiness, pandemonium, playfulness), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏ابله (junkie, pillock), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, disperse, dissipate, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, witling, yo-yo), шут (cutup, jester, merry andrew, mime, poll, scaramouch, shot, zany), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), жертва (casualty, fall guy, immolation, mug, oblation, offering, patsy, prey, sacrifice, victim), абдал (simpleton), пюре (mash, puree), предмет на подигравка (taunt), правя си шега, подхлъзвам (cheat, diddle, do smb., dupe, take smb. for a ride, trick), подлъгвам (cheat, dupe, entice, humbug, trick), подигравам (bosh, laugh at, make fun of, mock, ridicule, roast, send up), палячо (buffoon, clown, goon, jester, tomfool, zany), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), държа се глупашки. (various references)

Chinese 

笨蛋 (idiot), 傻�"� (crackpot, wanker), 呆子 (sucker). (various references)

Czech

trouba (blockhead, dodo, goof, lemon, nitwit, numskull, oaf, oven, tube), podvést (cheat, deceive, defraud, double cross, dupe, guile, let down, pluck, rope, swindle, take advantage of, victimize), pošetilec, pitomý (bloody, daft, dopey, dumb, foolish, frigging, gormless, idiotic, jerked), osel (ass, donkey, dunce, jackass), omezený (circumscribed, dozy, insular, limitative, limited, narrow, obtuse, restricted, scanty, thickheaded, tight), oklamat (befool, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, hoodwink, sham), napálit (bamboozle, beat, cheat, con, dupe, hoax, slog, take in), hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool), dìlat si legraci, blázen (freak, gander, lunatic, nut, nutcase), žertovat (banter, fool around, jest, joke, make fun, play tricks, trifle), šašek (antics, clown, jester, merry andrew, mimic, squirt, zany). (various references)

Danish

idiotsikker anordning (fool-proof device). (various references)

Dutch

zot (absurd, buffoon, foolish, jester, ridiculous), malloot, dwaas (absurd, foolish). (various references)

Esperanto

stultulo, mistifiki (hoax, mystify, trick), mistifikaĉi (cheat, defraud, swindle), malsaĝulo. (various references)

Farsi 

فریب دادن (Bob, Cheat, Deceive, Delude, Dissimulate, Doin, Hoodwink, Hum, Humbug, Jape, Mislead), مسخره (Clown, Dult, Hobbyhorse, Irony, Jeer, Mockery, Mower, Rustic, Sikt, Spoof, Witticism, Zany), نادان (Asinine, Ignorant, Inept, Silly, Simple, Unlettered, Untaught, Unwise, Yokel), لوده (Buffoon, Clown, Hobbyhorse, Zany), گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning), ابله (Asinine, Blister, Dolt, Doodle, Doter, Imbecile, Mome, Screwball, Silly, Simpleton), دلقک (Buffoon, Jester, Pantaloon, Stooge), دست انداختن (Banter, Game, Gibe, Hoax, Kid, Lark, Ridicule, Spoof). (various references)

Finnish

vetää nenästä, tomppeli (ass, dolt), tolvana (dunce, ignoramus), tollo (dunce, ignoramus), petkuttaa (cheat, pull a person's leg, swindle, take in, trick), narri (clown), narrata (cheat, dupe, take in), kaistapää (madcap), jymäyttää (take . . in), huiputtaa (cheat, diddle, dupe), houkka (dupe, idiot), hölmö (idiot, simpleton). (various references)

French

sot (foolish), imbécile (foolhardy). (various references)

Frisian

healwiis (absurd, lunatic), deadling. (various references)

German

tor (archway, door, gate, gateway, goal, hoop, port, portal), narren (dupe, hoax, jesters, make a fool of, mystify, to hoax, trick), narr (goop, jester, zany), dummkopf (ass, blockhead, bonehead, booby, chump, dimwit, dullard, dunce, goose, half wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, meathead, nit, nitwit, pinhead, thick, thickhead, thick-head). (various references)

Greek 

κοροϊδεύω (dupe, guy, kid, mock, razz, ridicule, spoof, string along, take the mickey out of). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליצן (buffoon, clown, droll, harlequin, jack-pudding, jester, scoffer, wag, zany), לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, dupe, fob, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride, take in), שוט�" (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly, stupid), אויל (evil person, prattler, silly, sot, stupid), חושם, חסר �"ע�" (ament, madman, senseless, silly, witless), כסיל (dolt, dupe, moron, oaf, simpleton), �"�"יוט (common folk, ignoramus, laic, lay, layman, plebeian), טפש (goof, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, simpleton, stupid, unwise). (various references)

Hungarian

udvari bohóc, gyümölcskrém, együgyű (blunt-witted, daw, green, half-witted, puerile, simple, simpleton), bolond ember (bozo, coot, jackass, nut, wacko, whacko), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole). (various references)

Indonesian

membodohi, bodoh (dull, dumb, hare-brained, idiot, obtuse, wooden-headed). (various references)

Italian

idiota (fook, idiot, idiotic, mooncalf, moron, stupid, twerp), allocco (ass, chump, gawk, hardhead, loggerhead, oaf, owl, tawny owl, thickhead). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

愚人. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うすのろ (half-wit, simpleton), と�"ちき (dimwit, dope, idiot, numbskull), と�"ま (dope, idiot), あほ�"� ら (airhead, oaf), あほう (idiot, simpleton), �"け (folly, moss), ぬけさく (blockhead), ちじ�" (acquaintance, dunce, friend, idiot), ふぬけ (coward), たわけもの (joker, trickster), ぼけ (Alzheimer's, idiot, Japanese quince, out of it from, space case, touched in the head from), ぐじ�", しれもの (dunce, idiot), ぐぶつ, ぐしゃ (nitwit), おろかもの, おどけもの (joker, trickster), ばか (folly, idiot, trivial matter). (various references)

Korean 

�"보. (various references)

Malay

gila (crazy, insane, mad, nuts). (various references)

Manx

ommidan (crackpot, cretin, dope, featherbrain, imbecile, loony, moron, mug, nutcase, twit, widgeon), molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, impose, imposition, trick), moal-hushtagh (half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile), bleb (dupe, idiot). (various references)

Norwegian

tosk (jerk), tøyse, narre (delude, dupe, frame), bedra (cheat, deceive). (various references)

Papiamen

sokete (addled, foolish, stupid), lolo, lolas, chiflá, chambòn (addled, foolish, stupid). (various references)

Pig Latin

oolfay.(various references)

Polish

głupiec. (various references)

Portuguese

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous). (various references)

Romanian

face pe prostul (affect ignorance, play the fool), imbecil (half-witted, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, soft-headed, witless, wooden-headed), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), clovn (buffoon, clown, harlequin, mime, pantaloon), cremã de fructe, duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, convey, deliver, die, drive, duke, fare, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wage, wear), gelatinã de fructe, glumi (dally, jape, jest, joke, jolly, kid, lark), bufon (antic, buffoon, butt, cut up, harlequin, jester, merry andrew, mugger, pantaloon, zany), idiot (cretinous, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, senseless, soft, stick, stupid), trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick, wangle), nãtãrãu (buffer, calf, donkey, goofy, jay, sheep, sheepish, simpleton, witless), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), nerod (balmy, blockhead, dunderhead, gudgeon, ninny, numskull, oaf, oafish, snipe, spoony), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), prosti (bamboozle, besot, chaff, chouse, dull, dupe, make a fool of, stultify, stupefy), se ţine de prostii, tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), gogoman (addle-headed, booby, foolish). (various references)

Russian 

шут (buffoon, clown, droll, harlequin, jester, man of motley, merry andrew, mountebank, tomfool, zany), глупец (buzzard, cuckoo, dweeb, gander, lump), одурачивать дурак, болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), дурачить, дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, goof, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head), дура. (various references)

Scottish

burraidh (ablockhead, blockhead, or -nean), amhlair (boor, dull, stupid person), amadan. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvekan (silly), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dolt, dumdum, gaby, gawk, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool), šaliti se (droll, fool around, jest, joke, kid, lark, monkey, niggle, trifle). (various references)

Spanish

engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away). (various references)

Sranan

dumakuku, donman. (various references)

Swahili

mjinga. (various references)

Swedish

narr (harlequin, jester), dumbom (bonehead, dunce, gaby, goof, goon, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references)

Thai

ทำเป็นตลก, ตัวตลก (butt, comedian, jester, joker, mime), หลอกลวง (betray, cheat, dupe, euchre, fake out, fiddle, fox, fudge, gull, hoax, humbug, mountebank), คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references)

Turkish

gülünç duruma sokmak, akılsız (buggy, bughouse, emptyheaded, fatuous, feather brain, feather-brained, foolish, goofy, gormless, ill-advised, inexpedient, irrational, mindless, preposterous, unintelligent, unreasoning, unwise, vacant, witless), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), avanak (clot, cluck, gullible, nincompoop, ninny, rube, sap, simpleton), şaka yapmak (banter, crack jokes, have a lark, jest, joke, kid, lark, lark about, lark around, pull smb.'s leg), budala (barren, chucklehead, chumpish, clod, clownish, doltish, dreary, dullish, jackass, juggins, noddy, noodle, prune, sappy, simple simon, soft, twit, zany), eğlenmek (amuse oneself, be amused, disport oneself, frolic, get a ball out of smth., go on a spree, have a good time, have fun, laugh away, make fun, make merry, make merry over, recreate oneself, revel, rollick, sport), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp), enayi yerine koymak (play smb. for a sucker), vakit geçirmek (play around, Potter, potter at), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), maskara (antic, buffoon, butt, jester, laughing stock, laughingstock, mascara, masquerader, mummer, wanton, zany), maskaraya çevirmek, meyve ve süt tatlısı, oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, dopey, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), soytarı (buffoon, clown, harlequin, jester, Judy, merry andrew, zany), enayi (chump, dupe, fall guy, foolish, goat, gudgeon, gull, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker). (various references)

Turkmen 

samsyk (stupid), paсkelle. (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreasonable, unwise), балуватися, посміховисько, дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile), дурити (bamboozle, beat, cheat, play off). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người xuẩn ngốc người l� m trò hề, người ngu xuẩn (loggerhead, ninny), người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony), l� m trò ngố, không phải l� ngu dại. (various references)

Welsh

ffwlcyn (nincompoop, ninny), ffw+l, ffoli (dote, infatuate), ynfytyn, cuall (blockhead, foolish, quick, rash), coegwr, coegddyn (coxcomb, fop). (various references)