tomfool

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tom=fool

CIDE DICTIONARY

tomfool, n. [Tom (see Tomboy) + fool.].

 A great fool; a trifler.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tomfool, n.
1 a foolish person.
2 (attrib.) silly, foolish (a tomfool idea).

THESAURUS

tomfool

absurd, ass, balmy, born fool, buffoon, clown, crazy, donkey, doodle, egregious ass, fantastic, figure of fun, fool, harebrained, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, insane, jackass, jerk, loony, lunatic, milksop, mooncalf, nincompoop, ninny, perfect fool, preposterous, schmuck, silly, softhead, sop, stupid ass, zany

ROGET THESAURUS

tomfool

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.