Fool vs Sham - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
* Franklin
(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
* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
A particular card in a tarot deck.
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
1000 English basic words
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Intended to deceive; false.
counterfeit; unreal
* Jowett
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
Trickery, hoaxing.
A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
A decorative cover for a pillow.
To deceive, cheat, lie.
* L'Estrange
To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
* L'Estrange
To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
Fool is a related term of sham.
As a noun fool
is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.As a verb fool
is to trick; to make a fool of someone.As a proper noun sham is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
- The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
- Can they think me their fool or jester?
- I'm a fool for the city.
- an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
Synonyms
* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshiteVerb
- Is this a time for fooling ?
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 foolReferences
sham
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
- They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.
Synonyms
* mock * See alsoAntonyms
* genuine * sincere * realNoun
(en noun)- The time-share deal was a sham .
- A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
Derived terms
* shamateurSee also
* pillow shamVerb
(shamm)- Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
- We must have a care that we do not sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.