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 Translation for 'foolish person' from English to Slovak
NOUN   a foolish person | foolish persons / foolish people
pochábeľ {m}foolish person
treštidlo {n} [ľud.] [obyč. žart.]foolish person
Partial Matches
hlúpy {adj}foolish
pochabý {adj}foolish
nerozumný {adj}foolish
bláznivý {adj}foolish
osoba {f}person
hlaváň {m}stubborn person
zaťatec {m}stubborn person
nezvestná osoba {f}missing person
nezvestný {m}missing person
neporiadnik {m}untidy person
kontaktná osoba {f}contact person
Kantončan {m}Cantonese (person)
vyvolená osoba {f}chosen person
nepočujúci {m}deaf person
nevidiaci {m}blind person
nevidiaci {m}sightless person
lenivec {m}lazy person
leňoch {m}lazy person
smoliar {m}unlucky person
starší človek {m}elderly person
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Usage Examples English
  • 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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