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damnfool

adj

Etymology

From damn + fool.

  1. derived from follis
  2. derived from fol
  3. inherited from fol
  4. compounded as damnfool — “damn + fool”

Definitions

  1. Contemptibly foolish.

    • ‘[…] Whole page seems to be given up to some damn-fool cycling championship at Cricklewood Stadium.’
    • […] those damnfool detective stories you read […]

  2. A contemptibly foolish person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for damnfool. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA