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PRONUNCIATION OF DAMFOOL

damfool  [ˈdæmˈfuːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DAMFOOL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Damfool is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DAMFOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of damfool in the English dictionary

The definition of damfool in the dictionary is stupid or foolish.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DAMFOOL


befool
bɪˈfuːl
Bul
buːl
capsule
ˈkæpsjuːl
cool
kuːl
fool
fuːl
gul
ɡuːl
Istanbul
ˌɪstænˈbuːl
Liverpool
ˈlɪvəˌpuːl
module
ˈmɒdjuːl
outfool
ˌaʊtˈfuːl
pool
puːl
preschool
priːˈskuːl
rule
ruːl
schedule
ˈʃɛdjuːl
school
skuːl
tomfool
ˌtɒmˈfuːl
tool
tuːl
unfool
ʌnˈfuːl
whirlpool
ˈwɜːlˌpuːl
you´ll
juːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DAMFOOL

damaskin
damassin
damboard
dambrod
dame
Dame Fortune
dame school
dame´s rocket
dame´s violet
damewort
damiana
Damien
Damietta
daminozide
dammar
damme
dammed
dammer
damming
dammit

WORDS THAT END LIKE DAMFOOL

after-school
alcool
April fool
business school
damn fool
elementary school
form the fool
graduate school
high school
home-school
middle school
no fool
old school
play the fool
primary school
public school
secondary school
stool
swimming pool
wool

Synonyms and antonyms of damfool in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «damfool» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DAMFOOL

Find out the translation of damfool to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of damfool from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «damfool» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

damfool
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

damfool
570 millions of speakers

English

damfool
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

damfool
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

damfool
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

damfool
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

damfool
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

damfool
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

damfool
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Damfool
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

damfool
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

damfool
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

damfool
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Damfool
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

damfool
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

damfool
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धोंफूल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

damfool
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

damfool
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

damfool
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

damfool
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

damfool
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

damfool
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

damfool
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

damfool
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

damfool
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of damfool

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DAMFOOL»

The term «damfool» is normally little used and occupies the 144.788 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DAMFOOL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «damfool» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «damfool» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about damfool

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAMFOOL»

Discover the use of damfool in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to damfool and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Honeymoon With Murder
“Listen here, why're those damfool women out in Max's speedboat in this kind of weather?” It would not be wrong to say that Annie felt a distinct sinking sensation, though the ferry rocked sturdily beneath her. Ben's finger stabbed the air. “You'd ...
Carolyn G. Hart, 2010
2
A Galahad of the creeks: The widow Lamport
Pozendine,' he says,1 ' you're a damfool ' — call me, Anthony Pozendine, head clerk of the district, damfool! ' Sir,' I said, ' that's Mr. Drage's order,' and he say, ' You ought to have been able to tell Mr. Drage what to write.' ' See,' he say, ' now ...
Sidney Levett Yeats, 1897
3
The Houghton Line
Labor unions combine in restraint and the masses say that it is the salvation of the laboring man, but when it comes to commercial men combining in restraint, some damfool lawyers prepared a damfool bill called the Sherman Anti-Trust Law ...
4
Golden Fleecing
Left early. Damfool dinner. Damfool speeches. Julie. You're in some bristly mood, all right. Admiral Fitch. Do we know a damfool named Benjamin Dane? (FEEGIE, in the process of pouring a drink, stops dead.) ACT ii GOLDEN FLEECING 49.
Lorenzo Sample, 1958
5
Jujitsu for Christ
game, and damfool T.J. was trying to catch him. Or was going to and T.J. was trying to stop him. Was going to: the sound from the stadium felt normal, big but normal, not all torn up from something crazy. Was going to try to shoot the governor.
Jack Butler, 2013
6
Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel
just think I'm a pure damfool without the least little grain of common sense. And they're right about that. Only a damfool would throw away his livelihood just because he was too proud to answer a few questions. He took a last drag on his  ...
Fred Chappell, 2013
7
The Guide To English Usage
He damaged the chair Damfool adj a thoroughly foolish • You ! Damfool, stop talking nonsense. Damn v 1. send someone to hell to suffer eternal punishment - that is, punish someone for his ills. • He was damned for his misdeeds 2. curse or  ...
B.b.sinha, 2009
8
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
"Oh he beeg damfool!" said Jerry, whose vocabulary had been learned mostly by association with freighters and the Police. "He tell 'bout beeg meeting, beeg man Louis Riel mak' beeg noise. Bah! Beeg damfool!" The whole scene had lost for ...
Ralph Connor
9
Flacks: 1973
He put his thoughts in a cable: Rompers I will not repeat not expend divfunds proposed damfool response stop direct you put damfool idea on hold see me my return stop also take immediate steps defuse situations cited stop my impression  ...
T. R. George, 2003
10
Dear Rafe: Mi Querido Rafa
Goyo reported that he couldn't collect on some of the bad debts, damfool, and then it turns out that he had; some of the people came to the Bank to see about their accounts 'n all, and there it was, all laid out, in black and white. Goyo'd tried to ...
Rolando Hinojosa, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DAMFOOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term damfool is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dale Bumpers Rides Again
And here is the senator on us inky wretches of the press in general, and once again he's on point: When some damfool of a teevee type from ... «Town Hall, Mar 15»
2
Marc Jenson's attorney wants hearing to explore recusal of judge in …
Come on, Mumford, do your job and focus on the law, for crying out loud. Your damfool theatrics will only hurt your clients. undefined 1 likes. «Salt Lake Tribune, Jan 15»
3
Getting to the nitty gritty of food propriety
I say this because, in her message, she happened to ask if I was one of those damfool idiots who ate biscuits with gravy. You have to trust me ... «HeraldNet, Feb 14»
4
Labor of Love
Graber plays in the Bluff City Backsliders as well as in three other bands – Way Back When, Damfool and Fatback Jubilee. “It's a passionate ... «Memphis Daily News, Jul 13»
5
96 years old and still as anxious as a fish...
... that I will be allowed to get on with my swimming in peace without being called to the phone to answer damfool questions from journalists.”. «Express.co.uk, Feb 13»
6
The Case of the Missing OED Words
It is a damfool shame that the media chose to exaggerate one aspect of this to create a controversy where none existed. Jesse Sheidlower is ... «New Yorker, Nov 12»
7
Nail Yakupov adds another potent skill set to Edmonton Oilers …
Yakupov seems healthy enough, but the damfool NHL seems likely to submit to another extended and entirely self-inflicted bed rest. If so, while ... «Edmonton Journal, Aug 12»
8
DECKER: Obamacare and the death of liberty
... “Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.” Chief Justice Roberts has reinforced the power of the government over the individual to scary new ... «Washington Times, Jun 12»
9
NPR stories about The Stand
Palfrey, who had been a machinist until 1984, was the only one present with sufficient self-respect to point out Hap's most obvious damfool ... «NPR, Aug 11»
10
Thinking About Bobby
The pervasive corruption caused by the damfool idea that "Money = Speech," validated by Supreme Court decisions like Buckley v. Valeo in ... «truthout, Dec 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Damfool [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/damfool>. May 2024 ».
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