tomfools

Are you really the two tomfools I have read of in all the papers?

The Ball and the Cross 1905

Why, the very state of the street is a disgrace and a temptation to such tomfools.

Alarms and Discursions 1905

The heaven that would answer a call of that kind would be a heaven for zanies and tomfools! '

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

But some people have no feeling, and will go on being tomfools though the house is on fire.’

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Johnny — he was Jack at school, but that, of course, his tomfools of relations couldn’t be expected to remember — Johnny was waiting on the platform when the train steamed in.

Australia Felix 2003

You and I are a couple of tomfools; but we try to play fair. "

The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But some people have no feeling, and will go on being tomfools though the house is on fire. "

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848

"Hold your tongue, sir," bounced out the Major, "and don't lecture me; don't come to me, sir, with your slang about Nature's gentlemen -- Nature's tomfools, sir!

The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837