Fool
Joking
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Got Volunteered: King Arthur gets Bugs to retrieve the Singing Sword after joking that "only a fool would go after the Singing Sword" threatening him with execution if he doesn't.
- This is the guy who acts like a joking, immature fool in every single episode.
Source: Aesop Amnesia -
Discussed and averted in Mercedes Lackey's Fortune's Fool, where the mer-princess heroine falls for a human and has to endure some ribald joking from her father about how it's fortunate her ancestors were sirens and not mermaids.
Source: Mermaid Problem
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