Yampy vs Fool - What's the difference?
yampy | fool |
A vegetable, the Indian white yam.
* 1970 , Jamaica Journal (volumes 4-5, page iii)
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
* Franklin
(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
* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
A particular card in a tarot deck.
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
As nouns the difference between yampy and fool
is that yampy is a vegetable, the indian white yam while fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.As a verb fool is
to trick; to make a fool of someone.yampy
English
Noun
(yampies)- He made sure to mention that when Miss Essie had dug up the yampies she kept only one for herself, and took all the others to the village shop to give to the villagers.
fool
English
Noun
(en noun)- You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
- The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
- Can they think me their fool or jester?
- I'm a fool for the city.
- an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
Synonyms
* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshiteVerb
- Is this a time for fooling ?