Jocular. A female fool.
1852. Smedley, L. Arundel, xxxvi. 303. Good-taste in dress is not in itself a folly, and only becomes so when the mind of a fool (or fool-ess as the case may be) exalts it to an undue preeminence.
1884. G. P. Hawley, Wit, etc., Richter, 155. Eve, I had only got as far on with my prophetic extracts from the world’s history as the sixth century, when you bit the apple under the tree, and I, like a fool, did as you did, and everything slipped out of my head. God only knows what sort of a set the fools and foolesses of the subsequent centuries may turn out to be.
