单词 | fooled |
释义 | fooledadj.n. A. adj. ΚΠ c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) 186 Ha þou foled [L. stulte] folk and nouȝt wys. a1500 (?a1400) Morte Arthur (1903) l.402 (MED) Wondir thought me nevir more Thanne me dyd of a folyd knight. 2. That has been tricked, deluded, or misled. Also occasionally: arising from or brought about by deception or trickery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] > caused to be nicedc1475 fooleda1625 a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) ii. 15 I that have consum'd My time and art in searching out their subtleties, Like a fool'd Alchimist. 1668 R. Howard Great Favourite ii. i. 11 Wou'd my Soules stormes, cou'd raise my voice..; that the fool'd world May know what dangerous Couzenage may lie hid Under such holy shapes. 1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 391 This impious Grognon, by the fool'd Support Of a fond Prince, made Cruelty her Sport. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 9 A thousand Opiates scatters to delude..And the fool'd Mind delightfully confound. 1865 ‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. xvi. 252 The resolve was fixed in him; to win this woman,or—to work on her the worst revenge that a foiled passion and a fooled love ever wrought. 1908 N.Z. Truth 21 Mar. 4/7 The fooled public, whose ‘interests’ are thus conserved are not even informed where the profits go. 2012 T. Wynn & F. L. Coolidge How to think like Neandertal vii. 137 There is only one recourse for the fooled listener: tell the joke to someone else. B. n. With the. The person who or group of people which is fooled by a trick, deception, etc. Also: tricked, deceived, or deluded people as a class. ΚΠ 1856 G. H. Boker Betrothal iv. iii, in Plays & Poems II. 86 Who is the fooler now? who are the fooled? 1857 H. W. Burrows Parochial Serm. ii. 20 They were the madmen, the deluded, the fooled, not he. 1931 Gisborne Times 27 May They had many people easily fooled, and the rest were easily influenced. The fooled suffered with the others. 2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Mar. (T Style Mag.) 110/3 There's a person who lies and a person who believes the lie... The fooler and the fooled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1350 |
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