| 单词 | damfool |
| 释义 | damfool colloq.|ˈdæmˈfuːl|
Also (jocular) damphool, -phule.
[f. damn a. + fool n.1]
A ‘damned fool’ (damned ppl. a. 4); a person who behaves stupidly; transf., a foolish thing or affair. Also attrib. or as adj., foolish, stupid. Hence damˈfool v. trans., to treat as a fool. Also damˈfoolery, damˈfoolishness.
1881‘Mark Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 135 Send me some of those damphool ‘ready letter-writers’. 1882J. J. Jennings Theatr. & Circus Life xxviii. 409 All the victim can do is to balance the account by putting experience on the debit side of the ledger and damphoolishness on the other. 1883G. M. Hopkins Let 28 Jan. (1955) 172 There is a great deal of nonsense about that set, often it sickens one..but still I disapprove of damfooling people. 1886‘F. Anstey’ Fallen Idol xi. 216 When I open the note I see in Greek characters, and forgif me that I rebeat such words to you at all, but I see written there—‘Do not a damfool be!’ 1898‘O. Thanet’ Heart of Toil 100 Was that the damfool way he had talked himself? 1900Kipling in Daily Express 20 June 4/5 ‘Fighting heroically’ in some damfool trap he's walked into with his eyes open! 1908G. H. Lorimer J. Spurlock iv. 66 The grasshopper isn't the only damphool in the good old summer-time. Ibid. xii. 328 It's all damfoolishness. a1909in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1909) 103 Now, Hennery, I am going to break you of this damfoolishness, or I will break your neck. 1909D. H. Lawrence Let. 8 May (1962) I. 53 She has lost all that damfoolery of faddishness about this, that and the other. 1913W. J. Locke Stella Maris ii, It's perhaps the only tremendous thing in my damfool of a life. a1953Dylan Thomas Quite Early one Morning (1954) 51 Proclaim their right, as Englishmen, to look at the damfool place however they willynilly will. 1960Analog Science Fact/Fiction Oct. 31/1 This desperate bit of damfoolery. |
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