About The Word Foolery
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Foolery
Foolery Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Foolery?
[n] foolish or senseless behavior
Synonyms | Synonyms for Foolery: folly | indulgence | tomfoolery Related Terms | Find terms related to Foolery: 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 See Also | buffoonery | caper | clowning | frivolity | frolic | gambol | harlequinade | play | prank | romp Foolery In Webster's Dictionary \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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