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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of fool

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fool + -est

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Examples

  • And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • 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 Girl of the Limberlost 1909

  • But suitable or not, they were thrilly to hear, and I would have enjoyed hearing them if it hadn't been for an abominable feeling that Billy was right beside me hearing every word also, and with a look on his face as if he thought my new friend was the foolest yet.

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • He made sacrifices for the cause, going without tobacco one whole month that he might contribute his share to what his father called "the foolest fool strike in the country."

    The Rowdy 1892

  • And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Enjoy Johnny to the fullest (or foolest) you can get, but don't let it ruin your day.

    GollyDays: ARASHI woke up my blog life 2009

  • "Huh! If it wasn't for Madame and a few more like her, I'd say women and hens are the two plum-foolest things God has found time to make yet.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • "'You're the best darn man on a monitor lever that I ever did see,' says he, 'but anywheres else you're the foolest combine of small boy and dare-devil, and some other queer thing that I don't seem to be able to find a name for, that ever cumbered this earth.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • "You are just the foolest, obsternatest little boy I ever did see," she grumbled; "you're a plumb idiot!

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887

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