英语词汇fool的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fool
词源	fool. The Latin word follis, which literally meant “bellows” but came to mean a “windbag,” gives us our word fool—foolish- ness and tongue-wagging being equated early on.
随便看	too old to cut the mustard too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash to oppose preston and his mastiffs toothache tree tooth and nail too thick to drink and too thin to plow tooth-jumping toothwalker tootle-oo toots tootsie roll to paint a house to pan top banana top brass top dollar top-drawer topiary top of the heap top of the morning to you toponomist topping toque tor to railroad

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