NOUN | a foolish person | foolish persons / foolish people | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.
- Twat is a slang word for the human vulva, also used as a derogatory epithet for a foolish person.
- It was also called negi-nagi, which meant foolish person as the victims laughed at spontaneous intervals.
- The word "sawney" survives in the current Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD), which validates the word in Scrabble tournament play, and is defined as "a foolish person".
- He contrasts the foolish person who is guided by ignorance and evil with the wise person who seeks wisdom and reason.
- Boob is slang for a woman's breast or for a stupid or foolish person.
- To him, the character of Penny represents a foolish person who believes there is a "magic ingredient" that will solve the problem of school shootings, and Constantine serves to ruin that notion and prove there is no easy answer to the epidemic.
- It is used among Scottish homes as a term for a foolish person.
- Richard Douglas wrote to his uncle Archibald Douglas, who disapproved of Foulis and his employment, that Foulis was a fool and Archibald's dire enemy, and that James had begun to realise that Foulis was a "foolish person" and he would not be sent to England again.
- The word "idiot" originally simply meant "private citizen"; in combination with its more recent meaning of "foolish person", this is sometimes used by modern commentators to demonstrate that the ancient Athenians considered those who did not participate in politics as foolish.
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