tomfool
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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
“If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story,” said she, with vicious energy.
From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
“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 Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Arrangements were made to secure me two hours alone with the prisoner, so that nothing seemed to be wanting to this tomfool business.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
Laws-a-massy, ye tomfool," Justus cried, "let it be a sign ter them ez run ag'in' ye!
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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