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FOOLERY

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does foolery mean? 

FOOLERY (noun)
  The noun FOOLERY has 1 sense:

1. foolish or senseless behaviorplay

  Familiarity information: FOOLERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOOLERY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Foolish or senseless behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

craziness; folly; foolery; indulgence; lunacy; tomfoolery

Hypernyms ("foolery" is a kind of...):

caper; frolic; gambol; play; romp (gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foolery"):

meshugaas; mishegaas; mishegoss ((Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity)

buffoonery; clowning; frivolity; harlequinade; japery; prank (acting like a clown or buffoon)

Derivation:

fool (indulge in horseplay)


 Context examples 


They sheer away their heads if they get up to any foolery.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, you look here, he added, suddenly changing his tone, we've had about enough of this foolery.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you." (English proverb)

"A danger foreseen is half-avoided." (Native American proverb, Cheyenne)

"Ask thy purse what thou should'st buy." (Arabic proverb)

"What comes easily is lost easily." (Egyptian proverb)



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