fool around

fool

F0233900 (fo͞ol)n.1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe: They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.4. Informal A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity: a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.5. A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.6. One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.7. A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.8. Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.v. fooled, fool·ing, fools v.tr.1. To deceive or trick; dupe: "trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather" (Charles Kuralt).2. To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly: We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.v.intr.1. Informal a. To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke: I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.b. To behave comically; clown.c. To feign; pretend: He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.2. To engage in idle or frivolous activity.3. To toy, tinker, or mess: shouldn't fool with matches.adj. Informal Foolish; stupid: off on some fool errand or other.Phrasal Verbs: fool around Informal 1. To engage in idle or casual activity; putter: was fooling around with the old car in hopes of fixing it.2. To engage in frivolous activity; make fun.3. To engage in casual sexual activity.4. a. To have a sexual affair with someone who is not one's spouse or partner.b. To have many sexual affairs. fool away To waste (time or money) foolishly; squander: fooled away the week's pay on Friday night.Idiom: play/act the fool1. To act in an irresponsible or foolish manner.2. To behave in a playful or comical manner.

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[Middle English fol, from Old French, from Late Latin follis, windbag, fool, from Latin follis, bellows; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	fool around - indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"horse around, arse around, fooljest, joke - tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious"play - be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl"
	2.	fool around - commit adultery; "he plays around a lot"play aroundcheat on, cuckold, wander, betray, cheat - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

fool

noun1. One deficient in judgment and good sense:ass, idiot, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool.Informal: dope, gander, goose.Slang: cretin, ding-dong, dip, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, schmuck, turkey.2. A person who is easily deceived or victimized:butt, dupe, gull, lamb, pushover, victim.Informal: sucker.Slang: fall guy, gudgeon, mark, monkey, patsy, pigeon, sap.Chiefly British: mug.verb1. To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation:beguile, betray, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, hoodwink, humbug, mislead, take in, trick.Informal: bamboozle, have.Slang: four-flush.Idioms: lead astray, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put something over on, take for a ride.2. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity:doodle, putter.Informal: fool around, mess around.3. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively:fiddle, meddle, mess, tamper, tinker.Informal: monkey.4. To move one's fingers or hands in a nervous or aimless fashion:fiddle, fidget, monkey, play, putter, tinker, toy, trifle, twiddle.phrasal verb
fool around1. Informal. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity:doodle, fool, putter.Informal: mess around.2. Informal. To make jokes; behave playfully:jest, joke.Informal: clown (around), fun.3. Informal. To engage in kissing, caressing, and other amorous behavior:Informal: neck, pet, spoon.Slang: make out.4. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:philander, womanize.Informal: cheat, mess around, play around.phrasal verb
fool awayTo spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:consume, dissipate, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste.Slang: blow.

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