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archfool

archfool noun: an extremely foolish person.

Noun

archfool (plural archfools)

  1. (archaic) An extremely foolish person.
    • The end was that he was thought an archfool.1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2...
    • The sixth priest calls anyone an archfool who believes that priests have a good life. Even though he became a priest unawares and now cannot escape, he warns other young men to avoid this life of misery.1993, Peter A. Dykema, Heiko Augustinus Oberman, Anticlericalism: in late medieval and early modern Europe, page 457

Forms of archfool

pluralarchfools

Origin of archfool

From arch- + fool.

Questions about archfool

What does archfool mean?
Archfool means an extremely foolish person.
What part of speech is archfool?
Archfool is a noun.
What is the plural of archfool?
The plural of archfool is archfools.

Words near archfool in the dictionary

  1. archflamen
  2. archflamens
  3. archflamines
  4. archfoe
  5. archfoes
  6. archfool
  7. archfools
  8. archful
  9. archgovernor
  10. archgovernors
  11. archgrandmaster

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