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单词 folehardy
释义

folehardy

Middle English

FWOTD – 9 December 2017

Alternative forms

  • fole-hardy, fole hardy, folehardye, fole-hardye, fole hardye, folehardi, fole-hardi, fole hardi, foolhardy, fool-hardy, fool hardy, foolhardi, fool-hardi, fool hardi, foole hardi, folherdi, fulhardy, ffoul hardy, foule hardy, fuyll hardy

Etymology

From Old French fol hardi (foolishly bold), from Old French fol (foolish, silly; insane, mad) (from Latin follis (bellows; purse, sack; inflated ball; belly, paunch), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (to swell)) + Old French hardi (durable, hardy, tough) (past tense of hardir (to harden), from the unattested Frankish *hardijan, from Proto-Germanic *harduz (hard; brave)). Equivalent to fole + hardy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfoːlˌhardiː/

Adjective

folehardy

  1. Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded, foolhardy.
    • 1330, Sir Orfeo
      Y no fond neuer so folehardi man, Þat hider to ous durst wende.
    • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, [], [London]: [] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes [], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio lxxxix, verso, column 1:
      This is my lyfe, but yf that I wold fight / And out at dore, anon I mote me dight/ And els I am loſt, but yf that I / Belyke a wylde lyon, fole hardy
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Descendants

  • English: foolhardy

References

  • fol-hardi, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 June 2018.
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