April fool | a practical joke or trick played on the first day of April |
fool's errand | a fruitless mission |
dunce cap dunce's cap fool's cap | a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils |
folderal falderol frill gimcrackery gimcrack nonsense trumpery | ornamental objects of no great value |
nonsense bunk nonsensicality meaninglessness hokum | a message that seems to convey no meaning |
amphigory nonsense verse | nonsensical writing (usually verse) |
stuff stuff and nonsense hooey poppycock | senseless talk, don't give me that stuff |
April fool | the butt of a prank played on April st |
chump fool gull mark patsy fall guy sucker soft touch mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
fool sap saphead muggins tomfool | a person who lacks good judgment |
jester fool motley fool | a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages |
stupid stupid person stupe dullard dolt pudding head pudden-head poor fish pillock | a person who is not very bright, The economy, stupid! |
false azalea fool's huckleberry Menziesia ferruginea | straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers |
Christmas begonia blooming-fool begonia Begonia cheimantha | hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers |
fool's parsley lesser hemlock Aethusa cynapium | European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten |
fool's paradise | an illusory state of wellbeing |
pyrite iron pyrite fool's gold | a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color |
horse around arse around fool around fool | indulge in horseplay, Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!, The bored children were fooling about |
a gull dupe slang befool cod fool put on take in put one over put one across | fool or hoax, The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone, You can't fool me! |
fritter frivol away dissipate shoot fritter away fool fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely, Fritter away one's inheritance |
fool gull befool | make a fool or dupe of |
play around fool around | commit adultery, he plays around a lot |
dazed stunned stupefied stupid(p) | in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock, he had a dazed expression on his face, lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow, was stupid from fatigue |
stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity |
no-nonsense | not tolerating irrelevancies, the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent |
unintelligent stupid | lacking intelligence, a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers |
nonsense(a) nonsensical | having no intelligible meaning, nonsense syllables, a nonsensical jumble of words |