"foolsome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more foolsome [comparative], most foolsome [superlative]
Etymology: From fool + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fool|some}} fool + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} foolsome (comparative more foolsome, superlative most foolsome)
  1. Marked by foolishness or characteristic of a fool; foolish
    Sense id: en-foolsome-en-adj-HyXWNNuj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "text": "The great Lord Burleigh has left it upon record in a letter to his son, that \"no fool is more foolsome than a she-fool.\" We should be inclined to amend that ungallant saying, and to urge that no fool is really more foolsome than your humanitarian crank, [...]",
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          "ref": "2015, B. B. Oak, Thoreau in Phantom Bog",
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