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  • noun Plural form of foole.

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Examples

  • Another sorte of fantasticall fooles bring to these hel-hounds

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

  • BTW anti-global warming fooles what do you think the measure of a temperature actually means, yes I know how hot something is, I do not mean the casual meaning … but what a physical scientist would say …

    Think Progress » Are you ready for some football global warming? 2006

  • These fooles constantly conflate Iraq to the “war on terror.”

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’ 2006

  • The same cabal of fooles who funded Saddam while he attacked Iran for us but before he attacvked Kuwait?

    Think Progress » U.S. military: Victory no longer an option in Iraq. 2006

  • Joesixpack, fooles laugh when they are unsure what to do…..and bush laughs a lot in public.

    Think Progress » Bush’s Empty Promises: Katrina Victims Still Waiting For Homes To Be Rebuilt 2006

  • I saw him not long since, for then he was hard by before us; questionlesse, he hath given us the slippe, is privilie gone home to dinner, and making starke fooles of us, hath lefte us to picke up blacke stones, upon the parching plaines of Mugnone.

    The Decameron 2004

  • My Lord, most certaine am I, that if it had beene publikely knowne, how none but your highnes, might serve for me to fixe my love on, I should have been termed the foole of all fooles: they perhaps beleeving, that I was forgetfull of my selfe, in being ignorant of mine owne condition, and much lesse of yours.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I am not to learne, that these accidents by thee related, may happen to fooles, who are voide of understanding or shame: but such as are wise, and endued with vertue, have alwayes such a precious esteeme of their honour, that they wil containe those principles of constancie, which men are meerely carelesse of, and I justifie my wife to be one of them.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Thou hast forgotte, how thou broughtst us to the plaine of Mugnone, to seeke for black invisible stones: which having found, thou concealedst them to thy selfe, stealing home invisibly before us, and making us follow like fooles after thee.

    The Decameron 2004

  • In just reprehension of those vaineheaded fooles, that are led and governed by idle perswasions

    The Decameron 2004

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