Foolish. O.E., now Sc. and dial., N.E.D.
1842. I do not know whence the means were drawn that supported all the fool Federal fandangoes that disgraced the country.—Mr. Duncan of Ohio in the House of Representatives, Jan. 25: Cong. Globe, p. 153, App.
1878. One fool Indian fired too soon and gave the alarm.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 306.
1908. That’s a fool notion, but you can’t git it out o’ some people’s heads.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 117.
1910. [Mr. Roosevelt, say they,] has told the Egyptians what is good for them; if they haven’t sense enough to see it, so much the worse for the Egyptians and their fool friends in England.—New York Evening Post, March 31.
