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Definitions for Fooling

[1] a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
[2] a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool.
[3] a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.
[4] an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm (usually preceded by a present participle): He's just a dancing fool.
[5] a weak-minded or idiotic person.
[6] to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
[7] to act like a fool; joke; play.
[8] to jest; pretend; make believe: I was only fooling.
[9] fool around , to putter aimlessly; waste time: She fooled around all through school. to philander or flirt. to be sexually promiscuous, especially to engage in adultery.
[10] fool away , to spend foolishly, as time or money; squander: to fool away the entire afternoon.
[11] fool with , to handle or play with idly or carelessly: to be hurt while fooling with a loaded gun; to fool with someone's affections.
[12] be nobody's fool , to be wise or shrewd.
[13] a person who lacks sense or judgement
[14] a person who is made to appear ridiculous
[15] (formerly) a professional jester living in a royal or noble household
[16] obsolete an idiot or imbecile the village fool
[17] form the fool Caribbean to play the fool or behave irritatingly
[18] no fool a wise or sensible person
[19] play the fool or act the fool to deliberately act foolishly; indulge in buffoonery
[20] (tr) to deceive (someone), esp in order to make him or her look ridiculous
[21] (intr; foll by with, around with, or about with) informal to act or play (with) irresponsibly or aimlessly to fool around with a woman
[22] (intr) to speak or act in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
[23] (tr foll by away ) to squander; fritter he fooled away a fortune
[24] fool along US to move or proceed in a leisurely way
[25] informal short for foolish
[26] mainly British a dessert made from a purée of fruit with cream or custard gooseberry fool

Words related to Fooling

foolroughhouse, farce, teasing, jesting, sham, trifling, frolicking, spoofing, kidding, skylarking, bluffing, joshing, horseplay, mockery, nonsense, pretense, buffoonery, rowdiness

Words nearby Fooling

foolfood-gathering, foodaholic, foodie, foodstuff, foofaraw, fool, fool and his money are soon parted, a, fool around, fool away, fool hen, fool's cap

Origin of Fooling

11225–75; Middle English fol, fool < Old French fol < Latin follis bellows, bag; cf. follis

Other words from Fooling

un·fooled , adjective
un·fool·ing , adjective
well-fooled , adjective

Word origin for Fooling

C16: perhaps from fool 1

Synonyms for Fooling

bluffing, farce, frolicking, jesting, joshing, kidding, roughhouse, roughhousing, sham, skylarking, spoofing, teasing, trifling, buffoonery, clownishness, high jinks, horseplay, making light, mockery, nonsense, pretense, rowdiness