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Tonto vs Fool - What's the difference?

tonto | fool |

As nouns the difference between tonto and fool

is that tonto is a sidekick while fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

As a proper noun tonto

is sidekick of the lone ranger.

As a verb fool is

to trick; to make a fool of someone.

tonto

English

(wikipedia Tonto)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Sidekick of the Lone Ranger
  • A member of the Tonto Apaches.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sidekick.
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  • * {{quote-book, title=More Jesus, Less Religion: Moving from Rules to Relationship, page=133, author=
    • Stephen Arterburn, coauthors=Jack Felton, year=2010, passage=So do you have a Tonto in your life? If not, find one and make that person your trusted companion., pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=6-_6EUw_d9kC&pg=PA133&dq=Tonto}}
  • A Native American who accepts a subservient position to a white person.
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  • * {{quote-book, title=Looking for country: a Norwegian immigrant's Alberta memoir, page=21, author=
    • Ellenor Ranghild Merriken, year=1999, passage=Once more, Beyond the Survey takes up the topic, introducing a character Mowees (obviously an "Indianificarion" of the common Metis name Moise) who unfortunately never rises above the level of a Tonto figure.}}
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    • See also

    * * (Tonto Apache people)

    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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