Tomfool

Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And you don't need much strategy, so you don't have to buy one of those tomfool microphone headsets. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Only one of them, a little man with a wrathful air, in a sheepskin coat wide open, and a lambswool cap pulled right over his eyes, on coming up to the gingerbread man, suddenly inquired: ‘How much is the gingerbread, you tomfool?’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

I gave each a mocking salute, driven by I don't know what tomfool bravado. ❋ Cook, Glen (1984)

"Why do you let that great tomfool call you by your first name, Mary?" he demanded, almost before the front door was shut. ❋ Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (N/A)

I had just got as far as that, when the gentleman said "Pshaw!" and then he told me to run off, and not come into the church again to tomfool -- that's what he said. ❋ Amy Le Feuvre (N/A)

I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about. ❋ J. Mclaren Cobban (N/A)

He'd got hold of some tomfool idiotic ideas about the situation in India. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1933)

Arsenic is tomfool stuff to commit suicide with, but it has been done. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (1930)

"Before we go any further," said Megger rudely, "I don't share your tomfool ideas about the rogue!" ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

What a dog I was -- what a green-horn -- what a careless, fat-headed tomfool to leave him alone like that! ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)

This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti - imperialist societies of the present-day. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1919)

That, in my opinion, you are not a qualified solicitor at all, that you never had an uncle, and that the whole story of the will and the ridiculous condition attached to it is just the tomfool joke of a man who, by his own admission, wastes most of his time writing unsuccessful farces. ❋ Unknown (1919)

This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Why in the world should you think it funny for them to do this tomfool trick all winter and have nervous prostration all summer to pay for it? ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth -- you -- you she loves, you gert tomfool!" ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)

There is [tomfoolery] [going on] this [magic] act. ❋ Uberduper (2009)

Why, you tomfooler! [Your birthday] is [really] [tommorrow]. ❋ Anonymous (2003)

2021: "[We do a little trolling]." 1821: "We [participate] in the occasional act of [tomfoolery]." ❋ Vl4dm1 Putin (2021)

[I just] tomfoolered you! ❋ YlwDucks (2022)

"Tom and I had too much to drink and we got into a little bit of [tomfoolery] last night" Moral: Don't be a [tomfool] like [these guys], TomFooling. ❋ AsianSpiderMen (2019)