1.  fool(n = noun.person) muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool - a person who lacks good judgment;
is a kind of simple, simpleton
has particulars: ass, buffoon, clown, flibbertigibbet, foolish woman, fucker, bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany, meshuggeneh, meshuggener, morosoph, putz, wally
Derived forms verb fool₃, verb fool₁

2.  fool(n = noun.person) chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of;
is a kind of dupe, victim
Derived forms verb fool₃, verb fool₁

3.  fool(n = noun.person) jester, motley fool - a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages;
is a kind of buffoon, clown, goof, goofball, merry andrew
Derived form verb fool₄

1.  fool(v = verb.social) befool, gull - make a fool or dupe of;
is one way to cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
Derived forms noun fool₂, noun fool₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

2.  fool(v = verb.consumption) dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
is one way to consume, squander, ware, waste
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  fool(v = verb.communication) befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in - fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"
is one way to betray, deceive, lead astray
Derived forms noun fool₂, noun fool₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

4.  fool(v = verb.communication) arse around, fool around, horse around - indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"
is one way to jest, joke, play
Derived forms noun fool₃, noun foolery₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

   A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. [1913 Webster]

1.  One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. [1913 Webster]

2.  A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. [1913 Webster]
" Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools." [1913 Webster]
" Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." [1913 Webster]

3.  One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. [1913 Webster]
" The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." [1913 Webster]

4.  One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. [1913 Webster]
" Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?" [1913 Webster]

   To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. [1913 Webster]
"Is this a time for fooling?" [1913 Webster]

1.  To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit." [1913 Webster]

2.  To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. [1913 Webster]
"You are fooled, discarded, and shook off
By him for whom these shames ye underwent." [1913 Webster]

fool, n., v., & adj.
--n.
1 a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a stupid person.
2 hist. a jester; a clown.
3 a dupe.
--v.
1 tr. deceive so as to cause to appear foolish.
2 tr. (foll. by into + verbal noun, or out of) trick; cause to do something foolish.
3 tr. play tricks on; dupe.
4 intr. act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way.
5 intr. (foll. by about, around) behave in a playful or silly way.
--adj. US colloq. foolish, silly.

Idiom:
act (or play) the fool behave in a silly way. fool's errand a fruitless venture. fool's gold iron pyrites. fool's paradise happiness founded on an illusion. fool's parsley a species of hemlock resembling parsley. make a fool of make (a person or oneself) look foolish; trick or deceive. no (or nobody's) fool a shrewd or prudent person.

fool, n. a dessert of usu. stewed fruit crushed and mixed with cream, custard, etc.

Etymology:
16th c.: perh. f. FOOL(1)

N  unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

N  humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit- worm, joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur.

VB  hold in disrespect, misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve, be disrespectful, be discourteous, treat with disrespect, set down, put down, browbeat, dishonor, desecrate, insult, affront, outrage, speak slightingly of, disparage, vilipend, vilify, call names, throw dirt, fling dirt, drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities, make mouths, make faces, bite the thumb, take by the beard, pluck by the beard, toss in a blanket, tar and feather, have in derision, hold in derision, deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer, roast, turn into ridicule, burlesque, laugh to scorn, smoke, fool, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of, play a practical joke, lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout, mob.

N  absence of Intellect, want of intellect, imbecility brutality, brute force, instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response, mimicry, aping (imitation), moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, dumb animal, vegetable, brain dead, Adj, unendowed with reason, void of reason, thoughtless, vegetative, moronic, idiotic, brainless, Adv, instinctively, like Pavlov's dog, vegetatively, unendowed with reason, void of reason, thoughtless, vegetative, moronic, idiotic, brainless, instinctively, like Pavlov's dog, vegetatively, V, mimic, ape (imitate), respond instinctively.

N  ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant, bookless, shallow, ignorant, a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits, ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant, bookless, shallow, ignorant, a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits.

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.

VB  deceive, take in, defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize, abuse, mystify, blind one's eyes, blindfold, hoodwink, throw dust into the eyes, dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle, trick, impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon, snatch a verdict, bluff off, bluff, bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box), circumvent, overreach, outreach, out wit, out maneuver, steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle, entrap, intrap, ensnare, nick, springe, set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for, bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime, trapan, trepan, kidnap, let in, hook in, nousle, nousel, blind a trail, enmesh, immesh, shanghai, catch, catch in a trap, sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity, hum, humbug, gammon, stuff up, sell, play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on, balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale, fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand, make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of, trifle with, cajole, flatter, come over, gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon, dissemble, cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck, live by one's wits, play at hide and seek, obtain money under false pretenses, conjure, juggle, practice chicanery, deacon, play off, palm off, foist off, fob-off, lie, misinform, mislead, betray, be deceived.

N  dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool, jay, sucker, laughingstock, Cyclops, simple Simon, flat, greenhorn, fool, puppet, cat's paw, credulous, mistaken.

april fool, court fool, fool around, fool away, fool notion, motley fool

1.  huckleberry(n = noun.plant) - any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries;
is a kind of blueberry, blueberry bush

2.  huckleberry(n = noun.plant) - any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries;
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a member of gaylussacia, genus gaylussacia
has particulars: black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata, dangle-berry, dangleberry, gaylussacia frondosa, box huckleberry, gaylussacia brachycera

3.  huckleberry(n = noun.food) - blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States;
is a kind of berry
is a part of black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata

   The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa. [1913 Webster]

huckleberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any low-growing N. American shrub of the genus Gaylussacia.
2 the blue or black soft fruit of this plant.

Etymology:
prob. alt. of hurtleberry, WHORTLEBERRY

black huckleberry, box huckleberry, evergreen huckleberry, fool's huckleberry, garden huckleberry, huckleberry finn, huckleberry oak, squaw huckleberry