"misfool" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + fool.",
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      "form": "misfools",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misfooling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misfooled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misfooled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Robert Herring, Hub, page 197:",
          "text": "Well, I'm blamed! Come that close agin and me watchin' too. Misfooled me. I'll give him that much.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, page 101:",
          "text": "Don't let this flatlander misfool you, preacher,” he warned, holding out a fleshy hand. “How do you know he's what he claims to be?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Miriam Forman-Brunell, The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography, page 69:",
          "text": "Uncle Jake was misfooled by what Jeff told him.",
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        "To fool or deceive; to cause to be mistaken."
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          "fool",
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        [
          "deceive",
          "deceive"
        ],
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          "mistaken",
          "mistaken"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialect) To fool or deceive; to cause to be mistaken."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misfool"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + fool.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misfools",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misfooling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misfooled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misfooled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Robert Herring, Hub, page 197:",
          "text": "Well, I'm blamed! Come that close agin and me watchin' too. Misfooled me. I'll give him that much.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, page 101:",
          "text": "Don't let this flatlander misfool you, preacher,” he warned, holding out a fleshy hand. “How do you know he's what he claims to be?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Miriam Forman-Brunell, The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography, page 69:",
          "text": "Uncle Jake was misfooled by what Jeff told him.",
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        "To fool or deceive; to cause to be mistaken."
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        "(dialect) To fool or deceive; to cause to be mistaken."
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