damnfool
damnfool adjective: contemptibly foolish.
Adjective
damnfool (not comparable)
- Contemptibly foolish.
- ‘[…] Whole page seems to be given up to some damn-fool cycling championship at Cricklewood Stadium.’1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2.1, p. 21
- People bored Manchek; the mechanics of manipulation and the vagaries of subordinate personality held no fascination for him. He often wished he were back at the wind tunnels of Wright Patterson. Particularly on nights when he was called out of bed by some damnfool problem.1969, Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
Noun
damnfool (plural damnfools)
- A contemptibly foolish person.
Examples of damnfool in a sentence
- […] those damnfool detective stories you read […]1973, Edith Taylor, The Serpent Under It:
- And celebrating damnfool so-called holidays like Space Colony Day and Reagan's Birthday?2000, Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Merrill Squier, Julie Vedder, Native Tongue:
Forms of damnfool
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | damfool |
| alternative form | damphool |
| alternative form | darnfool |
| alternative form | durnfool |
| Noun | |
| plural | damnfools |
Origin of damnfool
From damn + fool.
Questions about damnfool
- What does damnfool mean?
- Damnfool means contemptibly foolish.
- How do you use damnfool in a sentence?
- […] those damnfool detective stories you read […]
- What part of speech is damnfool?
- Damnfool can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near damnfool in the dictionary
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