Fool vs. Sucker

By Jaxson

  • Fool (noun)

    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 (noun)

    A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

  • Fool (noun)

    Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

  • Fool (noun)

    Buddy, dude, person.

  • Fool (noun)

    A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

    “an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool”

  • Fool (noun)

    A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

  • Fool (verb)

    To trick; to deceive

  • Fool (verb)

    To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

  • Fool (adjective)

    foolish

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. from late 14th century

  • Sucker (noun)

    An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. from 1570s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A parasite; a sponger.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A thing that works by sucking something.

  • Sucker (noun)

    The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A pipe through which anything is drawn.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A suction cup.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

  • Sucker (noun)

    Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments from 1750s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A piece of candy which is sucked from 1820s; a lollipop from 1900s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A hard drinker; a soaker.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An inhabitant of Illinois.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person from 1830s

    “One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.”

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    “A sucker for ghost stories.”

  • Sucker (noun)

    The penis.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in “this sucker”.

  • Sucker (noun)

    Generalized term of reference to a person.

    “See if you can get that sucker working again.”

  • Sucker (verb)

    To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    “to sucker maize”

  • Sucker (verb)

    To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

  • Sucker (verb)

    To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    “The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.”

Wiktionary
  • Fool (noun)

    a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person

    “I felt a bit of a fool”

  • Fool (noun)

    a person who is duped or imposed on

    “he is the fool of circumstances”

  • Fool (noun)

    a jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.

  • Fool (noun)

    a cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard

    “raspberry fool with cream”

  • Fool (verb)

    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”

  • Fool (verb)

    act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way

    “some lads in the pool were fooling around”

  • Fool (verb)

    engage in casual or extramarital sexual activity.

  • Fool (adjective)

    foolish; silly

    “that damn fool waiter”

Oxford Dictionary
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