n. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

n. a person who lacks good judgment

n. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

v. indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

v. make a fool or dupe of

v. spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

v. fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

n. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

n. mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

n. a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

n. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others

n. an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression

n. a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

n. someone punished for the errors of others

n. a person of subnormal intelligence

n. a person who is hunted

v. behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"

v. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"

v. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

v. beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

v. deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"

v. pay out; "spend money"

v. pay out

v. use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

v. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"

v. give false or misleading information to

adj. used informally

adj. heavy and dull and stupid

adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

adj. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

adj. mentally sluggish

adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

adj. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness