fule

noun, adj — 2 senses

fule

noun
  • That army gent, Major Boston, as is agent for all the College lands down the valley, he be a poor weak fule, and when all these tinants come to him and say that they must either hev the land at five shillings an acre or go, he gits scared, he du, and down goes the rent of some of the best meadow land in the country from thirty-five shillings to five.1888, H. Rider Haggard, Colonel Quaritch, V.C.:
  • "Why, you dog-goned old fule, you cain't hit thet bawl."1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars:
Derived terms
any fule kno

fule

adj
  • "What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you.1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2:

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