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
A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.
From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory
"However, it's exactly the same as if we were—" "Exactly tomfool!"
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
But not now; he was done with tomfool nights.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
Will you put that tomfool thing away, sir!
From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hal Hurst
