TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Definition: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

1. To render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.]

English words defined with "TO MAKE A FOOL OF": Dor ♦ Foolify ♦ To give one the dor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TO MAKE A FOOL OF": TO BAMBOOZLE ♦ Vote. (references)

Familiar Quotations: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Author	Quotation
Ilka Chase	When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson	For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. W W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like epixoriambikos. Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured.
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Modern Translation: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Language		Translations for "TO MAKE A FOOL OF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		sich lächerlich machen (to make a fool of oneself). (various references)

Hungarian		bolondot csinál magából (to make a circus of oneself, to make a fool of oneself). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		馬鹿�'見る (to feel like an idiot, to make a fool of yourself), 恥�'さらす (to make a fool of oneself). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばか�'みる (to feel like an idiot, to make a fool of yourself). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay akemay aay oolfay ofay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	infatua, infatuatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: TO MAKE A FOOL OF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-k-l-m-o-o-o-o-t"
	-5 letters: folkmoot, folkmote, meatloaf.
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