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tomfool

tomfool noun: a silly or stupid person, especially a boy or man.

Noun

tomfool (plural tomfools)

  1. A silly or stupid person, especially a boy or man.
  2. (Caribbean, colloquial) Any of various tyrant flycatchers viewed as foolishly confiding.

Adjective

tomfool

  1. Silly or stupid.

Verb

tomfool (third-person singular simple present tomfools, present participle tomfooling, simple past and past participle tomfooled)

  1. (intransitive) To act foolishly.

tomfool meaning in Urdu

tomfool in Urdu

مسخرہ, پگلوٹ

Forms of tomfool

Noun
pluraltomfools
Verb
third-person singular presenttomfools
present participletomfooling
past participletomfooled
pasttomfooled

Origin of tomfool

From tom + fool.

Words formed from tomfool

Questions about tomfool

What does tomfool mean?
Tomfool means a silly or stupid person, especially a boy or man.
What is tomfool in Urdu?
Tomfool in Urdu is مسخرہ, پگلوٹ. See Tomfool meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tomfool?
Tomfool can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
What is the plural of tomfool?
The plural of tomfool is tomfools.

Words near tomfool in the dictionary

  1. tomesful
  2. Tomewin
  3. Tomey
  4. Tomeys
  5. Tomești
  6. tomfool
  7. tomfooled
  8. tomfooleries
  9. tomfoolerous
  10. tomfoolery
  11. tomfooling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomfool (page history and authors); tomfool (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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