Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool

* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=Colonel Quaritch, V.C., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=That army gent, Major Boston, as is agent for all the College lands down the valley, he be a poor weak fule

* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Zane Grey, title=The Light of Western Stars, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Why, you dog-goned old fule , you cain't hit thet bawl." }}

Noun

(en noun)

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel .}}

Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.

(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.

His books were fuel for the revolution.

Money is the fuel for economy.

That film was nightmare fuel !