| 单词 | born fool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborn fool 4. A person whose mental faculties are limited or impaired; esp. (frequently with modifying word or phrase) a person having a limited capacity to learn, understand, reason, etc.; a person born with an intellectual disability. Now chiefly in born fool, often in weakened use, applied in depreciative exaggeration to a foolish or silly person (cf. sense A. 1). See also natural fool n.Now likely to be offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person congeonc1285 idiota1400 foola1425 natural foolc1450 natural idiot1497 natural1533 changeling1577 weakling1577 mooncalf1586 slimslack1600 aufe1621 oaf1638 weak-wit1656 underwit1682 imbecile1830 ament1871 unfortunate1881 balmy1903 subnormal1905 deficient1906 retard1909 retardate1912 retarded1912 mopoke1946 retardee1956 mong1980 a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus Cambr. 61) (1894) ii. l. 370 Euery wight but he be fool [a1413 Pierpont Morgan fel] of kynde, wol deme it loue of frendshipe. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xxv. 4 My soule hatide thre spicis..a pore man proud, and a riche man liere, and an eld man a fool and vnwitti [E.V. a1382 Douce 369(1) an old man fool and dotid; L. senem fatuum et insensatum]. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Father & Sons Ile make such a splinter runne into your wits, as shal make them ranckle till you become fooles. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 192 He was whipt for getting the Shrieues fool with childe, a dumbe innocent that could not say him nay. View more context for this quotation a1640 W. Fenner Pract. Divinitie (1647) 44 One that hath been a wise man, knows how to hold his peace, but a born foole is invincible. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 212 The Pazzorella, where they keep madmen and fooles. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 311 Hadst thou been a born Fool, or a raw Greenhead, or a doating Greyhead. 1824 R. Crabb Tales 142 He became well in his health; but he remained quite a fool for the rest of his life! 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 52 Some folks said that he was a born fool, and that he said so few words because he..stammered so awfully. 1920 E. Cook Press in War-time vii. 92 Only a born fool or a traitor would think of publishing such a statement as ‘Sir Douglas Haig has disposed such and such a number of troops, including such and such regiments in such and such a position.’ 2018 @olusola_vic 24 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 20 June 2018) You're a born fool and a sycophant. < as lemmas |
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