foolery
Americannoun
-
fooleries
plural
-
foolish action or conduct.
-
a foolish action, performance, or thing.
noun
-
foolish behaviour
-
an instance of this, esp a prank or trick
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of foolery
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“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
“We don’t tolerate any foolery, because this is something we want to see succeed,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
“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
Already made distrustful by the ingenious observations of the young duke, the sitters were determined not to be the butt of her fooleries very long, and a sitting was agreed on.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
His big toe is awful; no one can kiss it, unless on bended knees, and after the performance of sundry puerilities, as Bishop Eastburn, of Boston, very properly calls all such fooleries.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
