tomfool
/tɒmˈfuːl
/noun dated
A foolish person: [as modifier]: she was destined to take part in some tomfool caper...
- Within minutes we were grinning like tomfools.
- Craning his neck like some tomfool who doesn't know quite what he's doing, he denies, even as he asserts, his mastery of the psychological dynamics of his art.
