idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu[Fr]; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical[obs3]; extravagant &c (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless &c. 645; inexpedient &c. 647; frivolous &c. (trivial) 643. 
     Phr.  Davus sum non [Lat][Oedipus]; “a fool’s bolt is soon shot”
clitellae bovi sunt impositae [obs3][Henry V.][Lat][Cicero]; “fools rush in where angels fear to tread” [Pope]; il n’ a ni bouche ni eperon [Fr]; “the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read” [Pope]; “to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound” [Churchill].

—­ p. 148 —­

     #500.  Sage —­ N. sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of
the age; longhead[obs3], thinker; intellectual, longhair.
     authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus
Apollo[Lat][obs3], Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, “second Daniel.”
     man of learning &c. 492; expert &c. 700; wizard &c. 994.
     [Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all; poor man’s Einstein. 
     Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus. 
     Phr. barba tenus sapientes[Lat].

     #501.  Fool. —­ N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton,
witling[obs3], dizzard[obs3], donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer[obs3]; chowderhead[obs3], chucklehead[obs3]; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby[obs3], hoddy-doddy[obs3], noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy[obs3], owl; goose, goosecap[obs3]; imbecile; gaby[obs3]; radoteur[obs3], nincompoop, badaud[obs3], zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais[obs3].
     child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
     oaf, lout, loon, lown[obs3], dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard,
block, put, stick, stock, numps[obs3], tony.
     bull head, dunderhead, addlehead[obs3], blockhead, dullhead[obs3],
loggerhead, jolthead[obs3], jolterhead[obs3], beetlehead[obs3], beetlebrain, grosshead[obs3], muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead[obs3]; numbskull, thickskull[obs3]; lackbrain[obs3], shallowbrain[obs3]; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit[obs3]; dunderpate[obs3]; lunkhead
     sawney[obs3][U.S.], gowk[obs3]; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-
poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.
     un sot a triple etage[Fr], sot; jobbernowl[obs3], changeling,
mooncalf, gobemouche[obs3].
     dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother;
cotquean[obs3], henhussy[obs3].
     incompetent (insanity) 503.
     greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c (bungler)
701; madman &c 504.
     one who will not set the Thames on fire; one who did not invent
gunpowder, qui n’a pas invente’ la poudre [Fr]; no conjuror. 
     Phr. fortuna favet fatuis[Lat]; les fous font les festinas et les
sages les mangent [Fr]; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent [Lat]; stultorum plena sunt omnia [Lat][Cicero].