tomfool

Example Sentences

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Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.

From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson

"Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in."

From Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Molesworth, Mrs.

Rev'rend, I heard tell once about some tomfool idiot going over Niagary in a barrel, and I tell you it was like that when I tried crossin' that freshet to reach the contraption.

From Year of the Big Thaw by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Laws-a-massy, ye tomfool," Justus cried, "let it be a sign ter them ez run ag'in' ye!

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles