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Fool vs Twunt - What's the difference?

fool | twunt |

As nouns the difference between fool and twunt

is that fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence while twunt is (uk|slang) a fool; an extremely objectionable person.

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 ----

    twunt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, slang) A fool; an extremely objectionable person.
  • *2011 , (Grace Dent), The Guardian , 8 Jul 2011:
  • *:It is completely normal to harbour desires to batter these smug twunts about the head with a hot MacBook Air.
  • * "I note that in a recent New Scientist some twunt was advocating the use of C02 pressure washers and acidic/caustic cleaning foams instead of the usual disinfectant approach." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.dur.general/msg/f9c25d1a4ab6a623]
  • * "Is that the twunt who looks like Bill Bailey's younger brother?" — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.media.tv.misc/msg/b10e5ae4c747d4bb]
  • * "Let the pub-dodging twunt embarrass himself with his primitive, witless and repetitive insults. " — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/ddaef5bb1489b3cf]
  • * "Sorry for being kind of a twunt about other matters, but it's because of posts like this that I don't want to write you off or lose you as a friend." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime.misc/msg/27798193d1450dc0]