damfool

damfool

(ˈdæmˈfuːl)
adj
informal old-fashioned stupid or foolish
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damfool

adj attr (inf) → idiotisch (inf)
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For Dudley Damfool Pickering, Esquire, the lonely hearth for evermore!
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Indeed, the story was deleted from a later edition of Richardson's work and substituted with the observation, "Years later Eisenhower considered Warren's appointment 'the biggest damfool mistake I ever made .
The nomination of Justice Brennan: Eisenhower's mistake? A look at the historical record

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