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31gaga — /ˈgaga / (say gahgah) Colloquial –adjective 1. mad; fatuously eccentric. 2. senile. 3. besotted: he is gaga about his new car. –phrase 4. go gaga over, to be wildly excited or enthused about. {French: senile, a senile person (probably imitative) …
32murder will out — Similar in form to truth will out. c 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 1084 For thi [therefore] men sais into this tyde [time], Is no man that murthir may hide. c 1390 CHAUCER Nun’s Priest’s Tale 1. 4242 Mordre wol out that se we day by day. 1596… …
33fatuities — fatuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ silly and pointless. DERIVATIVES fatuity noun (pl. fatuities) fatuously adverb fatuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin fatuus foolish …
34fatuity — fatuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ silly and pointless. DERIVATIVES fatuity noun (pl. fatuities) fatuously adverb fatuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin fatuus foolish …
35fatuous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ silly and pointless. DERIVATIVES fatuity noun (pl. fatuities) fatuously adverb fatuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin fatuus foolish …
36fatuousness — fatuous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ silly and pointless. DERIVATIVES fatuity noun (pl. fatuities) fatuously adverb fatuousness noun. ORIGIN Latin fatuus foolish …
37fatuous — [fach′o͞o əs] adj. [L fatuus, foolish < IE base * bhāt , to strike > BATTER1] 1. complacently stupid or inane; silly; foolish 2. Archaic like an ignis fatuus; illusory; unreal SYN. SILLY fatuously adv. fatuousness n …
38fatuous — adj. vacantly silly; purposeless, idiotic. Derivatives: fatuity n. (pl. ies). fatuously adv. fatuousness n. Etymology: L fatuus foolish …
