Fool vs. Fart — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fool and Fart
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Definitions
Fool
A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person
I felt a bit of a fool
Fart
Emit wind from the anus.
Fool
A jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.
Fart
Waste time on silly or trivial things.
Fool
A cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard
Raspberry fool with cream
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Fart
An emission of wind from the anus.
Fool
Trick or deceive (someone); dupe
Don't be fooled into paying out any more of your hard-earned cash
She tried to fool herself that she had stopped loving him
Fart
A boring or contemptible person
He was such an old fart
Fool
Act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way
Some lads in the pool were fooling around
Fart
To expel intestinal gas through the anus; break wind.
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Fool
Foolish; silly
That damn fool waiter
Fart
An often audible discharge of intestinal gas.
Fool
One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
Fart
An annoying or foolish person.
Fool
One who acts unwisely on a given occasion
I was a fool to have quit my job.
Fart
To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
Fool
One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe
They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.
Fart
To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.
Fool
(Informal) A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity
A dancing fool.
A fool for skiing.
Fart
To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
Fool
A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
Fart
(informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?
Silent farts are often the smelliest.
Fool
One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth
A holy fool.
Fart
An irritating person; a fool.
Fool
A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
Fart
(usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
Fool
(Archaic) A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
Fart
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
Fool
To deceive or trick; dupe
"trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather" (Charles Kuralt).
Fart
Expel intestinal gases through the anus
Fool
To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly
We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.
Fool
To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke
I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.
Fool
To behave comically; clown.
Fool
To feign; pretend
He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.
Fool
To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
Fool
To toy, tinker, or mess
Shouldn't fool with matches.
Fool
Foolish; stupid
Off on some fool errand or other.
Fool
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
Fool
(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
Fool
(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Fool
Buddy, dude, man.
Fool
(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
An apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
Fool
A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Fool
To trick; to deceive.
Fool
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
Fool
(archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
Fool
(informal) Foolish.
Fool
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.
Fool
One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
Fool
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fool
One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Fool
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?
Fool
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
Is this a time for fooling?
Fool
To infatuate; to make foolish.
For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
Fool
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 offBy him for whom these shames ye underwent.
Fool
A person who lacks good judgment
Fool
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Fool
A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
Fool
Make a fool or dupe of
Fool
Spend frivolously and unwisely;
Fritter away one's inheritance
Fool
Fool or hoax;
The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
You can't fool me!
Fool
Indulge in horseplay;
Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!
The bored children were fooling about
