LekhoriLekhoriA jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
To trick; to deceive.
She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
Foolish.
Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook.
A surname.
Alternative letter-case form of fool (“a particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester”).
From Middle English fole (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.
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1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar Is this a time for fooling?
To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
They fool me to the top of my bent.