different between fool vs con
fool
English
Etymology
From Middle English fole (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of follis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu?l/
- Rhymes: -u?l
Noun
fool (plural fools)
- (derogatory) 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.
- 1743, Benjamin Franklin
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 13
- ‘If I coloured at all, Mr Edward,’ said Joe, ‘which I didn’t know I did, it was to think I should have been such a fool as ever to have any hope of her. She’s as far out of my reach as—as Heaven is.’
- 1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—
- If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
?Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
- If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
- 2001, Starsailor, Poor Misguided Fool
- You're just a poor misguided fool
Who thinks they know what I should do
A line for me and a line for you
I lose my right to a point of view.
- You're just a poor misguided fool
- 2008, Adele, Crazy for You
- And every time I'm meant to be acting sensible
You drift into my head
And turn me into a crumbling fool.
- And every time I'm meant to be acting sensible
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants
- This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.
- 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Can they think me […] their fool or jester?
- 1975, Foghat, "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
- I'm a fool for the city.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Buddy, dude, man.
- 2010, G.C. Deuce, From the Gutter to the Grave: An American Hood Novel, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 291:
- Upon opening the door, Trech was suddenly drawn aback by the shocking presence of the armed goon standing directly in front of him. “Yo, what up fool? […] ”
- 2012, Peron Long, Livin' Ain't Easy, Urban Books (?ISBN)
- “What up, fool?” he finally responded. “Not too much; fell asleep watching your boys get their asses kicked,” I told him, referring to the Carolina Cougars, the last team he played for before he got sick.
- 2014, Hitta Lo, Bracing Season I, Kaleidoscopic Publishing (?ISBN)
- Fame leaves out the house and walks to the BP gas station on Alabama Avenue. On the way there he sees his man Mark posted up at the rec center and walks over to holla at him. “What’s up fool?” Mark says while dapping Fame up.
- 2018, Keith L. Bell, Drought Season Over: The Sequel, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN)
- “What up fool?” Lil Slim said noticing the seriousness in Lil Kilo’s voice. “You ain’t switched up on us have you.” Lil Fresh looked at Lil Kilo like where that come from. “Nigga I’ll neva switch up.” Lil Slim said feeling a little offended.
- 2020, J. Lewis Johnson, A Dark Night in the Fieldhouse:
- [page 10:] "I knew you'd be scared," Reggie laughed. "What are you doin', foo? You must be crazy. You don't scare me." "Then why did you almost fall out of that chair? I scare everyone."
- [page 38:] "This is coo," said Fred. "It's almost like being there." "We are there, foo!" said Reggie as the boys slapped palms.
- 2010, G.C. Deuce, From the Gutter to the Grave: An American Hood Novel, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 291:
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
- (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Synonyms
- (person with poor judgment): See also Thesaurus:fool
- (person who entertained a sovereign): jester, joker
- (person who talks a lot of nonsense): gobshite
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fool (third-person singular simple present fools, present participle fooling, simple past and past participle fooled)
- To trick; to deceive
- 1918, Florence White Williams, The Little Red Hen
- She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
- 1918, Florence White Williams, The Little Red Hen
- To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
- 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar
- Is this a time for fooling?
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
- She's always complaining that she got stuck with the worst possible committee. And that me and Jimmy fool more than we work.
- 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fool (comparative fooler or more fool, superlative foolest or most fool)
- (informal) Foolish.
- 2011, Gayle Kaye, Sheriff Takes a Bride
- That was a fool thing to do. You could have gotten yourself shot
- 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
- Of all the fool, fruitless jobs, making anything of a creature that begins by deceiving her, is the foolest a sane woman ever undertook.
- 2011, Gayle Kaye, Sheriff Takes a Bride
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
- Olof, floo, loof
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French fol (French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis.
Noun
fool
- Alternative form of fole (“fool”)
Adjective
fool
- Alternative form of fole (“foolish”)
Etymology 2
From Old English fola.
Noun
fool
- Alternative form of fole (“foal”)
Rohingya
Etymology
From Sanskrit ???? (p?gala)
Noun
fool
- mad man
fool From the web:
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- what fool means
- what fools believe lyrics
- what fools these mortals be seneca
con
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n/
- (General American) enPR: k?n, IPA(key): /k?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophone: conn; (General American) Khan
Etymology 1
From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (whence know). Doublet of can.
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- For Cassius is aweary of the world;
- Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
- Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
- Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
- To cast into my teeth.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):
- At length, himself unsettling, he the pond
- Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look
- Upon the muddy water, which he conned,
- As if he had been reading in a book
- 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
- I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.
- 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- (rare, obsolete) To know, understand, acknowledge.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:
Related terms
- cunning
- ken
- unconned
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).
Noun
con (plural cons)
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- pros and cons
- (abbreviation) conservative
- own the cons
Synonyms
- disadvantage
Antonyms
- pro
Related terms
- pros and cons
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of convict.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
Translations
Etymology 4
From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deception
Translations
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
Synonyms
- (to be conned): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
Translations
Related terms
Etymology 5
From earlier cond; see conn.
Verb
con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)
- Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)
Noun
con (uncountable)
- Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)
Etymology 6
Clipping of convention or conference.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
- I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
Etymology 7
Clipping of conversion.
Noun
con (plural cons)
- (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
- We're getting a loft con done next year.
Etymology 8
Clipping of consumption.
Noun
con (uncountable)
- (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.
See also
- cone
- mod cons
Anagrams
- CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin conus.
Noun
con m (plural cons)
- cone
Related terms
- cònic
Dalmatian
Etymology 1
From Latin cum
Preposition
con
- with
Etymology 2
From Latin cunnus.
Noun
con m
- (vulgar) vulva, cunt
Fala
Etymology
From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.
Preposition
con
- with
Antonyms
- sin
French
Etymology
From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??/
Noun
con m (plural cons, feminine conne)
- (vulgar) cunt, pussy
- (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)
Adjective
con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)
- (slang, vulgar) stupid
Derived terms
Further reading
- “con” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- onc
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k??]
Preposition
con
- with
Antonyms
- sen
Derived terms
- coa, coas
- co, cos
- cun, cuns
- cunha, cunhas
Conjunction
con
- and
Etymology 2
Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”) rather than from Latin c?nus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.
Alternative forms
- co
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??/
Noun
con m (plural cons)
- boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore
- Synonyms: laxe, petón
Derived terms
- Con
- Coedo
Related terms
- coio
- coído
References
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?/
Noun
con m sg
- genitive singular of cú
Mutation
Italian
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Preposition
con
- with, together
- (rowing) coxed
Usage notes
- When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (marking these combined forms in writing is old-fashioned, and very rarely used apart from col and coi; however, it has always been very common in speech, and it still is):
Antonyms
- senza
Ladin
Alternative forms
- cun (Gherdëina, Badia)
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”).
Preposition
con
- with
- Antonyms: zenza, zënza
Ligurian
Etymology
From Latin cum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ku?/
Preposition
con
- with
Middle Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Noun
con m
- genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
Mutation
Muong
Alternative forms
- còn (tone sandhi)
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *ku?n. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.
Noun
con
- child
Classifier
con
- Indicates animals (including the human)
References
- Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hi?u v? ng? pháp ti?ng M??ng (Thim hi?u wuê ng? pháp thi?ng M??ng) [Understanding Muong grammar]?[3] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh S?n–Phú Th? Province Continuing Education Center
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin cunnus.
Noun
con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)
- (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)
See also
- landie
Descendants
- French: con
Etymology 2
See conme.
Conjunction
con
- Alternative form of conme
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/
Noun
con m
- genitive singular/dual/plural of cú
Mutation
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kõ/
Preposition
con
- with
Descendants
- Fala: con
- Galician: con
- Portuguese: com
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cum.
Preposition
con
- with
Descendants
- Ladino: kon
- Spanish: con
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon/, [kõn]
- Rhymes: -on
Preposition
con
- with
- on
Derived terms
Antonyms
- sin
See also
- conmigo
- consigo
- contigo
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *ku?n. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung ???, Mon ????? (kon), Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese k?an. For semantic relations, compare Chinese ? (“child; small thing; son”), Japanese ? (shi, ko, “child; small thing; son; boy; girl”). See also non (“young, juvenile”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [k?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [k????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [k????]
Noun
(classifier ??a) con • (????, ?)
- a child (daughter or son)
- (rare, chiefly in translations of ancient texts) a son
- Antonym: con gái
Derived terms
Noun
con • (????, ?)
- (rare, only in compounds) a small thing
Derived terms
See also
- t?
Pronoun
con • (????, ?)
- I/me, your child
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I/me, someone a lot younger than you
- you, my child
- (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you, someone a lot younger than me
Usage notes
- Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.
Synonyms
- (you (4)): cháu
Classifier
con
- Indicates animals (including humans).
- (disrepectful) Indicates female people.
- Antonym: th?ng
- Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.
- Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.
- (somewhat literary) Indicates written characters.
- (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.
- (colloquial) Indicates video games and movies.
Usage notes
- Even though con ng??i is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and ng??i does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese ? (nin)). M?t con ng??i "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while m?t ng??i sounds casual enough.
- The phrase con ng??i is popularly employed as a philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.
Derived terms
See also
- cái
Zazaki
Etymology
Related to Persian ???? (jân).
Noun
con ?
- soul
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