foolery
Americannoun
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fooleries
plural
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foolish action or conduct.
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a foolish action, performance, or thing.
noun
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foolish behaviour
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an instance of this, esp a prank or trick
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Origin of foolery
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“Eventually after much tom foolery, the critter was captured and removed from the freeway,” the state police wrote on the agency’s Twitter page.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
It takes no less than 10 seconds for the foolery to start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
“O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021
“I suppose you’ll miss me terribly, too,” I say to Richard, continuing the foolery.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
He complained about rampant "fooleries" like playing dice and cards and wearing masks.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020
Jerry, who does the nightclub bit these days, may be recalling that atrocious bomb of 1963 when ABC invested many millions on a 40-part series of his fooleries, then canceled out after only 13.
From Time Magazine Archive
A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Dr Fergusson is amusing enough upon the subject of hussar pelisses and such-like foreign fooleries.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
What in the name of Thunder and Bones do you mean squandering the precious money over fooleries like that for?
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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