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Fool [a food]

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as gooseberry fool, raspberry fool, means gooseberries or raspberries pressed. (French, fouler, to press.)

 

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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.

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Follower
Folly
Fond
Fons et Origo (Latin)
Font
Fontarabia
Food
Food for Powder
Foods and Wines
Fool
Fool [a food]
Fool Thinks
Fool in his Sleeve
Fool or Physician at Forty
Fools
Fool’s Bolt
Fool’s Paradise
Foolscap
Foot
Foot-breadth
Foot-lights