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/ful əwˈeɪ/ Listen

verb

Fool v. t.

To infatuate; to make foolish. "For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit."

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. "You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent."

To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

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"Fool away" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man, and peppered away at him, and he peppered away at them. Him and his horse both went home pretty leaky and crippled, but the Grangerfords had to be FETCHED home—and one of 'em was dead, and another died the next day. No, sir; if a body's out hunting for cowards he don't want to fool away any time amongst them Shepherdsons, becuz they don't breed any of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the same rate. The Huron touched upon politics and war, declaring that he and his people had come to visit their old father and listen to his voice, being well assured that he would never abandon them, as others had done, nor fool away his time, like Denonville, in shameful negotiations for peace; and he exhorted Frontenac to fight, not the English only, but the Iroquois also, till they were brought to reason. "If this is not done," he said, "my father and I shall both perish; but, ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... master's carriage go by, in which there is a five hundred dollar dog with a hundred dollar blanket on, and a collar set with diamonds, lolling on satin cushions, and the girl is fined ten cents for looking out of, the window, you don't want to fool away any time trying to get us to go to a heaven where such heartless employers ...

— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck

... you kin take it out in wantin'. Think she got time to fool away on a nigger sprout like you-all? Light a shuck back to the stable, where ...

— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... see you fool away your money, only I'm not going to have you carry loaded guns near me. If they are to be for show let them be for show. There, ...

— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn