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1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 564 There are many of these Fowlers, or rather Foolers in the World, such as doate in their reposals, setting up their rest in the things of this World, where it is not to be found, and in the mean time neglect to seek where it is.

1841 Keepsake 211 ‘Insolent fooler!—go—beware,’ Said Grief in moody tone, ‘How thus you frivolously dare Approach my solemn throne.’

1923 Amer. Hebrew 14 Dec. 173/1 Then she gets mad with him and she tells him I am right and that he's only a fooler around.

1937 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 8 June 10/2 Two mad-cap reporters on a daily paper..are in love with each other, but are such born foolers that they set obstacles in their own paths.

1979 R. Hall State of the Play ii. 51 You fool around solo do you. The whole class, heads down, working like beavers and just David Hedges the great individual fooler-around, mm?

1677 T. Godden Iust Discharge i. iii. 96 Had he..stood firm to the Principles of our Party.., he had done the work throughly, and freed himself from the intangling Sophisms of these Scholastick Foolers.

1880 Dover (Ohio) Weekly Argus 23 Apr. 1/9 (heading) How the fooler was fooled.

1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 316 They finally located a mine that looked good-natured an' generous; but it was a fooler.

1978 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 30 421/2 Nancy Reardon's Elmire meets Tartuffe's challenge, mustering all her seductive energy to dwarf even the master fooler in his own game.

2015 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Sports section) 5 This one's a fooler: Green looks small because it's nestled into a hill. It's big enough to easily three putt.