fon

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  1. A fool; a simpleton; an idiot. By God, thou is a fon. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, l. 169. Thus longe where have ye lent? Certes, walkyd aboute lyk a fon, I wist never what I ment. Towneley Mysteries, p. 80. Thou art a fon of thy love to boste, All that is lent to love wyll be lost. Spenser, Shep. Cal., February.
  2. Foolish; simple; silly. This knyght weddid a woman of the kynrede of Levi, but she was fon and bitter. Gesta Romanorum, p. 242.
  3. To be foolish or simple; act like a fool; dote. When age approchith on, … Than thoue shalte begynne to fonne, And dote in love. Court of Love, l. 458. Herk, syrs, ye fon, I shalle you teche. Towneley Mysteries, p. 94. What, thu fonnyst as a best? Coventry Mysteries, p. 36.

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  • Support to raster fonts (. fon) created in new Portable Executable File Format. —  2BakSa.Net
  • So here we are … later than expected but happy enough to present: OktoPussy, the new fon-ng firmware release for the Fonera 2.0
  • This time, she insisted on riding on Fon-fon's shoulders. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • Her steady subjugation of Fon-fon's dignity is one of the most charming things about this show, although she so did not deserve faceplanting into a steel girder. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • It's like saying you're watching Regios for Fon-fon and not Felli —  Anime Nano!
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  1. Middle English fon, fonne, fool (also as adjective), from Swedish fåne, a fool (fånig, foolish), = Icelandic fāni, “a buoyant, high-flying person” (Cleasby and Vigfusson), a metaphorical use (according to the same authority) of fāni, a standard, = Anglo-Saxon fana, English fane, vane: see fane, vane. Hence fond, q. v.
  2. Middle English fonnen, from fon, a fool; most common in the past participle fonned, fond, as adjective: see fond, a. and v.
 

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