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Fool vs Eliza - What's the difference?

fool | eliza |

As nouns the difference between fool and eliza

is that fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence while eliza is church.

As a verb fool

is to trick; to make a fool of someone.

fool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
    The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
  • * Franklin
    • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
  • (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • * Milton
    • Can they think me their fool or jester?
  • * 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
    • I'm a fool for the city.
  • (cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
    • an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
  • A particular card in a tarot deck.

    • Synonyms

    * (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

    Verb

  • To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
  • * Dryden
    • Is this a time for fooling ?

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    eliza

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , popular in the 19th century.
  • * 1993 Ruth Rendell: The Crocodile Bird : page 76:
    • "My real name's Eliza'. I've sometimes thought she called me after '''Eliza''' Doolittle in ''Pygmalion''." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with ' Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."