How to pronounce fool

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What fool means

noun

Most people know fool in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A cold dessert of crushed fruit folded into cream

In a sentence: For dessert we had a gooseberry fool, with tart fruit swirled into sweet cream.

Where it comes from: It comes from the French fouler, meaning to trample or crush. It is a different word from fool meaning a silly person, which goes back to the Latin follis.

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