noun
fool
A dessert made of puréed fruit mixed with cream.
The cookbook offers a gooseberry fool for dessert.
Etymology
Origin uncertain. The dessert-name does not securely derive from French fouler, “crush,” despite that familiar explanation.
More examples
- She folded the fruit into cream to make a fool.
- They served small bowls of raspberry fool.
- A chilled strawberry fool finished the meal.
Forms
fool