Tomfool

Definition: Tomfool

Tomfool

Noun

1. A person who lacks good judgment.

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

Note: Tomfool \Tom"fool`\, noun. [Tom (see Tomboy) fool.]. (references)

Synonyms: Tomfool

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.

Albanian

tutkun (nitwit, slowcoach), 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, fool, 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, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, dotty, fool, insane, mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, up the pole), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏سخيف (absurd, childish, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, inept, ridiculous, silly, spoony). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, 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, 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, fool, 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, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), палячо (buffoon, clown, fool, goon, jester, zany). (various references)

Czech

hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head), absurdní (absurd, farcical, laughable, preposterous, senseless), šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific). (various references)

French

imbécile, idiot, fou, absurde. (various references)

German

Hanswurst (buffoon, clown, fool, harlequin, jester, pantaloon, zany), Einfaltspinsel (half wit, patsy, simpleton, simpletons), blödian (idiot). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, zany), βλαξ (goon, gudgeon, imbecile, lummox, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, zany). (various references)

Hungarian

ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, witless, wooden-headed), bamba (boob, booby, muzzy, oafish, simple). (various references)

Manx

jannoo ommidys. (various references)

Pig Latin

omfooltay.(various references)

Portuguese

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, 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, 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, fool, 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, tom-noddy, zany), paspalhão (fanny, poop, stupid), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jay, jerk, jolterhead, mooncalf, moron, natural, numskull, oaf, prodigy, silly, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker), dizer tolices (fudge, piffle, twaddle), babaca (jerk, stupid). (various references)

Romanian

prostãnac (Cully, daft, dolt, fat, fat-head, gowk, gudgeon, hobbledehoy, noodle, nut, pigeon, soft-headed, zany), prostãlãu (bumpkin), nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, Dotty, driveller, duffer, dummy, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, silly, wet, zombie). (various references)

Russian 

шут (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, harlequin, jester, man of motley, merry andrew, mountebank, zany), дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, 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, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, twit), budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dolt, dumdum, fool, gaby, gawk, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap). (various references)

Swedish

tok (crazy, duffer, fool, insane, mad, nuts), galning (loon, loony, lunatic, madman, madwoman, maniac, screwball). (various references)

Turkish

rezil olmak (fall into obloquy, lose face), maskaralık etmek (fool about, fool around, play the fool, play the giddy goat), kafasız (addle-brained, addle-pated, duffer, harebrained, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, stupid, unsophisticated, witless), aptalca davranmak (act the fool, caper, fart around, goof, goof around, make an ass of oneself), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, twerp, twit). (various references)

Ukrainian

блазнювати (clown), блазень (antic, aper, banana, buffoon, clown, harlequin, jester, motley, mountebank, owl-glass, zany), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thằng ngốc (idiot, mooncalf, tomnoddy), thằng đần (mooncalf, tomnoddy). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tomfool": tomfooleries, tomfoolery, tomfools. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tomfool" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: timolol, Tofeili, Toffolo, Tombol, tombolo, tomoo, tymeful. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: molto.

-3 letters: fool, foot, loft, loof, loom, loot, molt, mool, moot, tool, toom.

-4 letters: loo, lot, mol, moo, mot, oft, oot, tom, too.

-5 letters: lo, mo, of, om, to.

+1 letter: folkmoot, tomfools.

+2 letters: folkmoots.

+3 letters: tomfoolery.

+5 letters: tomfooleries.