Tool

n.

Heard in Offaly, Cork, Limerick, Westmeath, Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Kildare and Donegal

A fool of a man. Also used ironically to mean the opposite.

In use

That mrman is nobody's tool" "That lad is some tool

Posh English

That gentleman is nobody's fool. That fellow is a complete idiot.

Same phrase, other counties