Fool vs. Sucker

Foolnoun

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Foolnoun

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

Foolnoun

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

Foolnoun

Buddy, dude, person.

Foolnoun

(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Foolnoun

A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

Foolverb

To trick; to deceive

Foolverb

To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

Fooladjective

(informal) foolish

Foolnoun

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

Foolnoun

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

Foolnoun

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

Foolnoun

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

Foolnoun

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

Foolverb

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Foolverb

To infatuate; to make foolish.

Foolverb

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

Foolnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Foolnoun

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

Foolnoun

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

Foolverb

make a fool or dupe of

Foolverb

spend frivolously and unwisely;

Foolverb

fool or hoax;

Foolverb

indulge in horseplay;

Foolnoun

a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person

Foolnoun

a person who is duped or imposed on

Foolnoun

a jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.

Foolnoun

a cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard

Foolverb

trick or deceive (someone); dupe

Foolverb

act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way

Foolverb

engage in casual or extramarital sexual activity.

Fooladjective

foolish; silly

Suckernoun

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

Suckernoun

(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

Suckernoun

A parasite; a sponger.

Suckernoun

An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

Suckernoun

A thing that works by sucking something.

Suckernoun

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

Suckernoun

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

Suckernoun

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

Suckernoun

A suction cup.

Suckernoun

An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

Suckernoun

Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments

Suckernoun

A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop

Suckernoun

A hard drinker; a soaker.

Suckernoun

An inhabitant of Illinois.

Suckernoun

A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person

Suckernoun

A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

Suckernoun

The penis.

Suckernoun

(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

Suckernoun

(informal) Generalized term of reference to a person.

Suckerverb

To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

Suckerverb

To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

Suckerverb

(transitive) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

Suckernoun

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

Suckernoun

A suckling; a sucking animal.

Suckernoun

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

Suckernoun

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

Suckernoun

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; - used by children as a plaything.

Suckernoun

A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; - so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

Suckernoun

Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

Suckernoun

A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

Suckernoun

A hard drinker; a soaker.

Suckernoun

A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.

Suckernoun

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

Suckernoun

Any thing or person; - usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker.

Suckernoun

A person strongly attracted to something; - usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.

Suckerverb

To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

Suckerverb

To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone).

Suckerverb

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

Suckernoun

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

Suckernoun

a shoot arising from a plant's roots

Suckernoun

a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

Suckernoun

flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

Suckernoun

hard candy on a stick

Suckernoun

an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

Suckernoun

mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps