Meaning of FOOLERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'fooluree
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| | Definition: | | [n] foolish or senseless behavior |
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| | Synonyms: | | folly, indulgence, tomfoolery |
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| | See Also: | | buffoonery, caper, clowning, frivolity, frolic, gambol, harlequinade, play, prank, romp | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fool"er*y\, n.; pl. {Fooleries}.
1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As
foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. --Shak.
2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something
absurd or nonsensical.
That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any
of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. --Sir
W. Raleigh.
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| | Related Terms: | | asininity, back answer, banter, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, caustic remark, clownishness, comeback, crack, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cut, cutting remark, daffiness, desipience, dig, dump, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, fleer, flout, folly, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gibe, gibing retort, giddiness, goofiness, harlequinade, horseplay, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jab, jape, jeer, jest, leg-pull, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mock, monkeyshines, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, Parthian shot, parting shot, put-down, put-on, queerness, quip, rude reproach, sappiness, scoff, screwiness, scurrility, senselessness, shenanigans, short answer, silliness, slam, slap, stupidity, swipe, taunt, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, twit, verbal thrust, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism |
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