transitive. To deceive, cheat, fool.

trans. To befool, delude.

transitive. To delude, impose upon.

transitive. To make a fool of, deceive, cheat.

transitive. To befool, make a fool of, make foolish.

transitive. To make a fool of; to dupe, delude.

intransitive. To jest, to trifle; to make sport. Obsolete.

transitive. To cheat, delude, befool; to mock. trifle out, to dismiss with mockery. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To befool, delude.

to make a ‘daw’ or fool of.

transitive. To make a fool of (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To mock, make fun of, trifle with. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make a gull of; to dupe, cheat, befool, ‘take in’, deceive. Also absol., to practise cheating.

transitive. To make a dolt of, befool; to call dolt.

transitive. To make game of, make a fool of, mock, befool, confound. to dor the dotterel: to cajole or hoax a simpleton: cf. dare, v.2 5.

transitive. To fool, deceive, cheat, cozen; (also) to overcome.

transitive. To befool, cheat, ‘take in’. Obsolete.

transitive. To make a fool of (someone); to make (something) foolish or seem foolish; (sometimes) spec. to trick, deceive.

transitive. To make a fool of, infatuate, befool.

transitive. To make a fool of; = noddy, v.

To befool, to gull; to jilt.

To befool, delude. (Partly confused with illude, v.)

transitive. To make a fool of, to fool. Cf. wigeon, n. 2.

transitive. To make (someone) appear foolish; to treat like a fool, make a fool of; (in later use usually) spec. to trick or deceive (someone)…

transitive. To make a fool of. Cf. noddify, v.

transitive. = fob, v.1 To make a fool of, cheat, dupe. Also to cheat into, out of.

transitive. To make a gull of; to gull, impose upon.

? To delude, befool. Obsolete.

(transitive) to make a ‘woodcock’ of, to befool.

transitive. To mock at, flout; to delude mockingly.

figurative. †To gull, cheat (obsolete). Also dialect: to flatter, wheedle.

transitive. To make a fool of.

transitive. To mock, sneer at. rare.

transitive. To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat. Frequently with of, out of, etc. Cf. bubble, n. 2. Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To make a fool of, deceive, cheat, take in.

transitive. To make a ‘cokes’ of, befool, impose upon, ‘take in’. Obsolete.

transitive. To make a dupe of; to deceive, delude, befool; to cheat.

transitive. To cause (a person) to be shown at a disadvantage; to make a fool of. Obsolete.

transitive. To fool, dupe. Also with out of. Obsolete.

transitive. To make idiotic, to turn into an idiot; to make a fool of.

transitive. To make an ox of; to turn into an ox.

transitive. To fool, to trick, to dupe; to make a fool of. Cf. fool, v. 3.

transitive. To make a fool of; to cheat, con.

To draw as by persuasion or art; to draw on; hence colloquial ‘to quiz, befool’ (Farmer Slang).

transitive. To force (a person) out of an election through corruption or malpractice. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make a fool of or to cheat (a person). In passive in quot.

transitive. slang. To make (a person) appear simple or gullible (see green, adj. 8d); to hoax, take in, swindle. Also with out.

(transitive) to persuade, to speak persuasively to; to dupe, to swindle.

slang (chieflyU.S.). transitive. To tease; to play a joke on; to make fun of. Also intransitive.

transitive and intransitive. To deceive, fool or ‘kid’ (someone). slang.