Definition of Fooled

1. Verb. (past of fool) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fooled

1. fool [v] - See also: fool

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fooled

fool's huckleberry
fool's mate
fool's mates
fool's paradise
fool's parsley
fool-saint
fool about
fool away
fool to oneself
fool up
foolable
fooldom
foole
fooled (current term)
fooled around
fooler
fooleries
foolers
foolery
fooles
foolest
fooleth
foolfish
foolfishes
foolhardice
foolhardier
foolhardiest
foolhardihood

Literary usage of Fooled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to how a Hundred Million by Gerald Stanley Lee (1920)
"There seem to be, speaking roughly and as far as my own observation of psychology goes, six main ways in which the average man is fooled about himself and ..."

2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... will not be fooled in this of three crowns. Thence to White Hall, and walked long in the gardens, till, as they arc commanded to all strange persons, ..."

3. War's Brighter Side: The Story of "The Friend" Newspaper Edited by the by Julian Ralph (1901)
"Government Buildings, April 1st, 1900. This notice was but one of many of the signs we gave forth that we were being fooled by the ..."

4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... meaning"fooled, disgraced." For few tliere. were that were so much redoubted, Whom double fortune lifted up and ..."

5. Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: a Book about "the Show Business by Olive Logan (1870)
"How a Philadelphia Manager fooled the Public.—Tho Gentleman who improved on my "Surf ... fooled ..."

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