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Foozled vs Fooled - What's the difference?

foozled | fooled |

As verbs the difference between foozled and fooled

is that foozled is (foozle) while fooled is (fool).

foozled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foozle)

    • foozle

    English

    Verb

    (foozl)
  • To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
  • * 1921 Oct. 2, " One-handed drivers menace to public," Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. 17 (retrieved 30 Aug. 2011):
    • Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
  • * , Humor and Fantasy :
    • I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fogey.
  • * 1838 , Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter :
    • There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
  • A mistaken shot in golf
  • * 1923 , , Odd Fish :
    • Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.

    References

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    fooled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fool)

    • 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

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