Fute vs Fule - What's the difference?
fute | fule |
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool
* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage="Why, you dog-goned old fule , you cain't hit thet bawl." }}
As an adjective fute
is wily, cunning, crafty.As a noun fule is
(dialectal|chiefly|scotland) fool.fule
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