The chief or foremost fool; one that exceeds all others in folly.
“Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.”
Shakespeare: Timon of Athens, iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.