foolship
Noun
The condition of being a fool; foolishness; folly
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
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Of old, your Fool did make your sage one tremble; but my foolship hath not found it so.
The devil on your foolship! — Oh, I must walk the dark foggy way that spits fire and brimstone.
Used as a title or a form of address for a foolish person
Usage- Humorous
- often
- Uncountable
- usually
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To this Philip replied, “We give your Foolship to know that in temporals we are subject to no person.”
More examples (1)
[...] But has only bamboozel'd by scratches and knocks / A set of old wives, silly peers, and mad bucks, / Who willing to try what their foolships could do / [...]
“Precisely. And no Sir about it, half-boy, half-man. Deegan will do. Or your foolship."
Word forms
foolships