tomfool
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tomfool
1325–75; Middle English Thome fole Tom the fool
Example Sentences
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Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Laws-a-massy, ye tomfool," Justus cried, "let it be a sign ter them ez run ag'in' ye!
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth—you—you she loves, you gert tomfool!"
From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden
Made me dress up my men and the ship in this tomfool way.
From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.
Then the father swore “he was not going to have his son make a tomfool of hisself to please that there parson.”
From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
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