tomfool
Example Sentences
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Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
I've been dared into a lot of tomfool things in my day.
From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.
Then the father swore “he was not going to have his son make a tomfool of hisself to please that there parson.”
From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
Will you put that tomfool thing away, sir!
From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hurst, Hal
“See here, young feller!” said Wisdom, “don’t go fill yourself up with tomfool notions ’bout lions and tigers waitin’ behind every bush.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
