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Definition: FOOLED |
FOOLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Fool |
Date "FOOLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Alemannic (g'arscht ). (references) |
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Crosswords: FOOLED |
| English words defined with "FOOLED": Done brown. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FOOLED": callback. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We never had sex but we fooled around (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Oh you sure fooled me. Now about my 3 wishes (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) I fooled around with Josh (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Don't be fooled it isn't thunder, staying put would be a blunder (Jumanji; writing credit: Greg Taylor) Except I never fooled myself, Mr. Greenwald (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts) | |
Lyrics | I fooled on you (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special) Maybe it's just an ego problem, problem is that I've been fooled before (When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman; performing artist: Dr Hook) Dont be fooled by the rocks that I got (Jenny From The Block; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) They got me fooled, see the Henny with the J (Po' Folks; performing artist: Nappy Roots) When you get fooled by smiling faces but (Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cao Fooled by Ci Zuo (1941) The Woman Who Fooled Herself (1922) How She Fooled Aunty (1915) | |
Song Titles | Won't Get Fooled Again (performing artist: The Who) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | The intellect is always fooled by the heart. |
John Dryden | When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Linda Thompson | You know, Elvis fooled himself into thinking he didn't have a drug problem because everything that he took was by prescription. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But don't be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy, and the helpless. |
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| "FOOLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 79.43% of the time. "FOOLED" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 79.43% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.44% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.77% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 282 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fooled houdini who | 24 |
fooled around and fell in love | 14 |
fooled | 12 |
again fooled get t won | 10 |
around fell fooled in love lyrics | 5 |
again fooled get lyrics t won | 5 |
again fooled get lyrics t who won | 4 |
fooled houdini | 4 |
by fooled randomness | 4 |
again fooled get wont | 3 |
around fell fooled in love mp3 | 3 |
again fooled get t who won | 2 |
april by fooled | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FOOLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, haughty, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, self-important, snobbish, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Chinese | "弄 (fooling). (various references) | |
French | dupe. (various references) | |
German | betrogen (cheated, defrauded). (various references) | |
Italian | imbrogliato. (various references) | |
Korean | "보"을 하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooledfay.(various references) | |
Spanish | enga ado. (various references) | |
Swedish | lurad (done). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FOOLED": befooled, outfooled. (additional references) | |
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"FOOLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fcooled, folde, folden, fole, foled, folkedup, folled, foofles, fooler, Foorler, foozed, foped, Fotolito, Fouladi, foullet, oooold. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FOOLED" (pronounced fuw"ld) |
| 3 | -uw" l d | cooled, overruled, pooled, retooled, ruled, schooled, supercooled, tooled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-o-o" | |
-1 letter: flood, looed. | |
-2 letters: delf, dole, feod, fled, floe, fold, food, fool, lode, loof, oleo. | |
-3 letters: del, doe, dol, eld, elf, fed, foe, led, loo, ode, old, ole. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, ef, el, lo, od, oe, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l-o-o" | |
+1 letter: flooded, flooder, floored, folioed, footled, foozled, onefold, reflood. | |
+2 letters: befooled, flooders, folderol, followed, foodless, foretold, fuelwood, refloods, selfhood. | |
+3 letters: falsehood, floodgate, folderols, fuelwoods, lifeblood, offloaded, outflowed, outfooled, reflooded, selfhoods. | |
+4 letters: clubfooted, defoliator, falsehoods, flapdoodle, flatfooted, floodgates, floodwater, foreclosed, forelocked, lifebloods, overflowed, reflooding, waterflood. | |
+5 letters: defloration, defoliation, defoliators, dobsonflies, flapdoodles, floodwaters, foolhardier, footfaulted, footslogged, foulmouthed, splayfooted, waterfloods. | |
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