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Jamaican Patois · Descriptions and adjectives

Fool-fool

Foolish, silly

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JLU spelling
fuul-fuul

What “Fool-fool” means

Fool-fool means foolish, silly or gullible. The doubled form intensifies the meaning, as reduplication does throughout Patois. It describes people as well as behaviour.

Examples

Nuh badda wid dem fool-fool ting deh.

Don't bother with that foolishness.

Im too fool-fool, everybody trick im.

He's so gullible, everybody tricks him.

How to use it

Mild and often teasing. It is less harsh than eediat and much milder than anything with a cuss word attached.