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
"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth—you—you she loves, you gert tomfool!"
From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden
Drop this 'ere tomfool game and go home quiet to wherever it is you do live.'
From The Talking Horse And Other Tales by Anstey, F.
“See here, young feller!” said Wisdom, “don’t go fill yourself up with tomfool notions ’bout lions and tigers waitin’ behind every bush.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.
From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir
