Dictionary entry

Fool

Pronunciation: /fuːl/

Pronunciation

/fuːl/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) လူရူး။ လူမိုက်။ (v) မိုက်မဲစွာပြုမူသည်။ (v) ကလိ

Definition

fool 1 /fu:l / n ၁။ ( derog ) လူႏံု။ လူအ။ လူ႕အႏၶ။ What fools we were not to realize he was cheating us! ❍ Do't be such a fool! ❍ I was fool enough (ie so stupid as) to believe him. ၂။ (ေရွး) မင္း၊ နယ္စားပယ္စား၊ အမတ္ စသည္ တို႔က ခန္႔ထားေသာ ေပ်ာ္ေတာ္ဆက္၊ လူရႊင္ေတာ္၊ လူျပက္။ See also APRIL FOOL v ၁။ (က) ~ (about/around) ေဆာ့သည္။ ကလိသည္။ Stop fooling (about) with that knife or someone will get hurt. (ခ) က်ီစားသည္။ ျပည္သည္။ I was only fooling when I said I'd lost your keys. ၂။ ~ sb (into doing sth) လွည့္စားသည္။ တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္သည္။ You can't / don't fool me! ❍ She certainly had me fooled. ❍ She fooled him into thinking the painting was genuine. adj ( US infml ) အဆင္ျခင္မရိွေသာ။ ေပါေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္ ႏိုင္ ေသာ။ That fool husband of mine locked us out of the house. ❏ act/play the fool [ IDM ] ျပည္သည္။ အေျပာင္အျပက္ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ be no fool; be nobody's fool [ IDM ] ရွစ္စပ္က လည္သည္။ ❏ fool about / around [ PHRV ] နန္႔ေၾကာ ဆြဲသည္။ သေဝ ထိုးသည္။ I was meant to be working on Sunday, but I just fooled around all day. ❏ fool around [ PHRV ] ( infml esp US ) ကျမင္းေၾကာ ထသည္။ ❏ fool's errand n အဓိပၸာယ္မရိွသည့္အလုပ္။ go/ be sent on a fool's errand. ❏ fool's paradise n [sing] ငရဲပန္းကို ေရႊပန္း ထင္ျခင္း။ I realized later that I'd been living in a fool's paradise. ❏ make a fool of oneself/sb [ IDM ] ေပါက်န္ရစ္သည္။ ❏ more fool sb [ IDM ] တကယ့္ငေၾကာင္။ ‘I got up early to do some work and now I'm exhausted. ’ ‘More fool you!’ ❏ (there is) no fool like an old fool [ IDM ] ( saying ) ႀကီးခါမွမိုက္ရင္ မိုက္တြင္းပိုနက္တယ္။ ❏ you could have fooled me [ IDM ] ( infml ) ယံုဖို႔အခက္သား။ Is that really a wig? You could have fooled me! fool 2 /fu:l / n [C,U] (usu in compounds) မလိုင္၊ ၾကက္ဥႏို႔ေပါင္း၊ သစ္သီးေရာထားေသာ ပူတင္းမုန္႔၊ အခ်ဳိပြဲ။ a / some rhubarb fool.

Examples

  1. You’re a fool if you think you’ll ever see that money again.
  2. How could you be such a stupid fool?
  3. [feel (like) a fool] : I felt such a fool when he used me as an example!
  4. [look (like) a fool] : I’m not wearing that; I don’t want to look like a fool.
  5. Gooseberry/rhubarb/raspberry fool