tomfool

Example Sentences

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Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

Drop this 'ere tomfool game and go home quiet to wherever it is you do live.'

From The Talking Horse And Other Tales by Anstey, F.

"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth—you—you she loves, you gert tomfool!"

From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden

A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.

From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson