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foolish, a.|ˈfuːlɪʃ|
Forms: 4 foles, foolis, 4–7 folisch, -is(s)he, -ys(s)h(e, (5 foolich, foulishe, -ysse), 5–6 fulich, -ische, 6– foolish.
[f. fool n.1 + -ish.]
1. Fool-like, wanting in sense or judgement.
a1300Cursor M. 14802 (Cott.) Þe folk es foles, þat es wel sene. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xv. 7 Men foolis shul not take it. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 151 Thou woldist seie y were..vnwijs and folisch. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 201 The fooli-hest sorte amonge the lawyers. 1692Locke Educ. §94 Wks. 1727 III. 38 Think no man..wiser or foolisher, than he really is. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. iv, Women are so very foolish, Mr. Squeers. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 19, I was foolish to expect anything else.
absol.c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xc. (1869) 108 The maymed, the foolich, the founded, the froren. 1526Tindale Luke x. 21 Thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse..and opened them to the folisshe. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 163 Well, well, Lambkin (which the Foolish often calls me).
2. Befitting a fool; proceeding from, or indicative of folly.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 793 Thyn ire and folish wilfulnesse. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xliii. 170 The rewarde of his folyshe loue. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 7 b, Here perauenture the carnall and beestly man wyll moue a folysshe questyon. 1628Earle Microcosm., Plausible Man (Arb.) 60 He can listen to a foolish discourse with an applausive attention. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxii. 196 Selfe-conceit, and foolish arrogance. 1735Pope Prol. Sat. 212 Where Wits..wonder with a foolish face of praise. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 255 To follow foolish precedents..is easier than to think. 1828Scott F.M. Perth v, Her foolish notions of a convent. 1859Tennyson Enid 433 Nor speak I now from foolish flattery.
3. Ridiculous, † amusing.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 21 Nought is more folysshe than suche wretches be. 1691Southerne Sir A. Love iv. Wks. (1721) 222 'Twill be foolish enough to observe him, when he discovers me; pray stay and laugh with me. 1717Prior Alma i. 115 A foolish figure He must make.
4. Humble, insignificant, paltry, poor, mean, trifling. arch. or dial.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 124 We haue a trifling foolish Banquet towards. 1596― Merch. V. i. ii. 130 Hee of all the men that euer my foolish eyes look'd vpon, was the best deseruing a faire Lady. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxxii. §9. 235 Stalkes; whereupon do grow foolish idle flowers. 1625Jackson Creed v. iv. §5 Base Licinus hath a pompous Tombe..Wise Cato but a foolish one. 1833Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 218 Owes favour..to the foolishest accident. 1862Mrs. Browning Last Poems, Parting Lovers ii. 5 Thou hast not seen a hand push through A foolish flower or two. 1890Boldrewood Colonial Reformer (1891) 420 A hundred miles is..no foolish ride.
5. Comb., as foolish-bold, foolish-compounded, foolish-looking, foolish-wise, foolish-witty. Also, † foolish fire, Ignis fatuus; foolish guillemot, an aquatic bird, Lomvia troile.
1613T. Milles Treas. Anc. & Mod. Times viii. xii. 769/2 Phlegyas became (in the end) so ouer-weening and *foolish⁓bold that [etc.]
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 8 The braine of this *foolish compounded Clay-man.
1605Verstegan Rest. Dec. Intell. 217 Dwas-licht. That which wee other⁓wise call the *Foolish-Fyre.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Foolish Guillemot, the web-footed diving-bird Uria troile, common on our coasts.
1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. vii, Gaudy and *foolish-looking uniforms.
1590Greene Orl. Fur. (1594) D i b, The heauen of loue is but a pleasant hell, Where none but *foolish wise imprisned dwell.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 838 How loue is wise in follie, *foolish wittie. |