tomfool如何读

英:[ˌtɒmˈfu:l]

美:[ˌtɑmˈful]

tomfool是什么意思

  • n.

    笨伯,傻瓜;

  • adj.

    极蠢的;

  • tomfool自然拼读

    tom·fool

    tam ful

    tomfool英英释义

    noun

    a great fool : blockhead

    adjective

    extremely foolish, stupid, or doltish

    tomfool词源英文解释

    Noun earlier Tom foole, from Tom, shortened form of Thomas, a proper name + foole fool >entry 1 Note: The word was perhaps originally an appellation for a jester. The account rolls of Durham Abbey record disbursements made for a certain Thome Fole (also in Latin as Thomas Fatuus), presumably the name of a professional jester, for items of dress in the 1330's and for his funeral during the period 1356-57 (see Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Middle English Dictionary s.v. Tomme). Adjective from attributive use of tomfool >entry 1

    The first known use of tomfool was in 1640

    tomfool 例句

    1 "No, no, Major, don't play tomfool," and Jeekie grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away.

    2 I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.

    3 "You expect me to go with you on this tomfool's errand?"

    4 If Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.

    5 Then the father swore “he was not going to have his son make a tomfool of hisself to please that there parson.”

    6 It's women's tomfool dressing keeps us all down.

    7 “See here, young feller!” said Wisdom, “don’t go fill yourself up with tomfool notions ’bout lions and tigers waitin’ behind every bush.

    8 Rev'rend, I heard tell once about some tomfool idiot going over Niagary in a barrel, and I tell you it was like that when I tried crossin' that freshet to reach the contraption.

    9 And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.

    10 Why couldn't Swing Tunstall have stayed reasonably in Farewell instead of traipsing off over the range like a tomfool.

    11 For the love of God come round here this instant and deliver me from the clutches of a tomfool A.P.M.

    12 What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.

    13 For my part, I think that a British merch—" "Hold your tongue, sir," bounced out the Major, "and don't lecture me; don't come to me, sir, with your slang about Nature's gentlemen—Nature's tomfools, sir!

    14 Drop this 'ere tomfool game and go home quiet to wherever it is you do live.'

    15 Arrangements were made to secure me two hours alone with the prisoner, so that nothing seemed to be wanting to this tomfool business.

    16 And, say, for a minute there, after Gridley had got the drift of that tomfool remark, I didn’t know whether he was goin’ to throw Marmaduke through the window, or have another fit.

    17 Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.

    18 Made me dress up my men and the ship in this tomfool way.

    19 "Chief among them, why your tomfool brother—you call him your brother, I suppose?—brought me over here on a fool's errand."

    20 "Before we go any further," said Megger rudely, "I don't share your tomfool ideas about the rogue!"

    tomfool 同义词

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