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April fool

noun

The butt of a prank played on April 1st.

A practical joke or trick played on the first day of April.

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"April fool" Quotes from Famous Books

... April Fool's Day. It may be made the occasion of a party. Games suitable to the occasion are played; among them pinning a tail to the picture of a tailless donkey fastened on the wall. This may be drawn by one of the children. Tails are slightly pinned on the children among ...

— Entertainments for Home, Church and School • Frederica Seeger

... For an April Fool's Day gathering, ask each guest to come prepared to do some sleight of hand trick. When all are assembled, each one in turn performs his trick. A vote is taken for the most clever and a prize ...

— Games for Everybody • May C. Hofmann

... is, April Fool's Day?" he asked. "I'm surprised that the International Press should fall for such ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool. This is also practised in Scotland under the title of Hunting ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... years after marriage, can make his wife an April fool, and record it, is no bad husband, and it would be a trespass on his good fame to suggest it. He loved her dearly and could never have been unkind to her. Far from that, happy domestic pictures abound in his diaries. Here is one of a time when she had ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... If he [Montrevil] were too sanguine ... when he signed that engagement upon the first of April, etc.—Swift. April fool.[6] ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift

Words linked to "April fool" : laughingstock, stooge, butt, practical joke, goat