Funny old fathead at court? (4)
I believe the answer is:
fool
'court?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'funny old fathead at' is the wordplay.
'funny' indicates an anagram.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'fathead' becomes 'f' (head letter of 'fat').
'at' becomes 'ol' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'f'='of'
'of' with letters rearranged gives 'fo'.
'fo'+'ol'='FOOL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fool that I've seen before include "Sweet - kid" , "Ass - sweet" , "Nincompoop" , "Jester; dupe" , "One and his money are soon parted" .)