fool away

Definition of Fool Away in English :

spend frivolously and unwisely

Example Sentences:
'Fritter away one's inheritance'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fool Away

Informal

to fritter away foolishly

n.

1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.

2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.

3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe: They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.

4. Informal A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity: a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.

5. A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.

6. One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.

7. A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.

8. Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.

v. fooled, fool·ing, fools

v.tr.

1. To deceive or trick; dupe: "trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather" (Charles Kuralt).

2. To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly: We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.

v.intr.

1. Informal

a. To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke: I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.

b. To behave comically; clown.

c. To feign; pretend: He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.

2. To engage in idle or frivolous activity.

3. To toy, tinker, or mess: shouldn't fool with matches.

adj.
Informal

Foolish; stupid: off on some fool errand or other.