Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=May 15 , author=Scott Tobias , title=Film: Reviews: The Dictator , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war. }}

* 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 92

The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, Scotland, now, rare) Fool, simpleton.

* 1856 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art :

to the apparent delectation of immense audiences of gaping gomerals , but to the intense disgust of all sensible people.

* 1875 , The Story of Valentine, and his Brother'', chapter XXXIX, in ''The Living Age , volume 124, page 563:

"But, you gomeral , you belong to my class, and not to your own!" said the old lord, feeling, with a mixture of pain and amusement and impatience, his own ignorance before the superior and melancholy knowledge of life possessed by this boy.

* 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon.