tom-fool

Him an 'his brother are all the time devilin' each other to tom-fool things.

THE END OF THE STORY 2010

Who can explain the way the Finns plays tom-fool tricks with the weather?

CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

It was that mischief-making tom-fool, Lord Byron, who got you into the scrape.

A Start in Life 2007

He was not one of that class which he has described as composed of "solemn reformers of the tom-fool variety, who, according to their custom, paid attention to the name and not the thing."

Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland

The tom-fool reformers who criticized Roosevelt for meeting Platt at breakfast were not even good observers.

Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland

He could fence a little, and did not quite like playing at getting the worst of it when it was not certain that he ought to have done so; but still, the violent action, and the clash of steel helped him to get rid of that feeling that he was making a tom-fool of himself, which confused him when he had to make a lot of spoony speeches to the girl.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

But there will never be a tom-fool revolution in this fair land.

A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

I was to make Mr. Rhodes understand that we didn't want any more 'tom-fool military men up here to ball up the game.'

A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

Won't do to have her wasting her time with these tom-fool notions.

Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932

And Ellen says she can't unless you give her back some tom-fool promise she made.

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919