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Yule vs Fule - What's the difference?

yule | fule |

As nouns the difference between yule and fule

is that yule is (yule) while fule is (dialectal|chiefly|scotland) fool.

yule

English

Proper noun

(s)
  • Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 24th and January 6th).
  • A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.

    • Derived terms

    * Yuletide * Yule log * Yule tree * Yule wreath

    See also

    * jolly * * Sabbat * Christmas *

    References

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    fule

    English

    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." }}

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