foolhardy
A person who is foolhardyA person who is foolhardy.
» Tom is foolhardy, isn't he?
Tom ist tollkühn, nicht wahr?
Meaning
1 sensesA person who is foolhardy.
Examples
7 sentencesTom is foolhardy, isn't he?
deTom ist tollkühn, nicht wahr? — wolfgangth
Tom is foolhardy.
deTom ist tollkühn. — Felixjp
The young man is often foolhardy.
You are making a foolhardy judgment about me.
You need to be brave but not foolhardy.
ruНадо быть смелым, но не безрассудным. — marafon
Origin
From Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, from Old French fol hardi (“foolishlyFrom Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, 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 *hartjan, from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard; brave”)), equivalent to fool + hardy. Compare fool-bold, fool-large, etc.
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