Foolery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foolery \Fool"er*y\, n.; pl. {Fooleries}.
     1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish
        behavior; absurdity.
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              Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,


              As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. --Shak.
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     2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something
        absurd or nonsensical.
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              That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any
              of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. --Sir
                                                    W. Raleigh.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foolery
       n : foolish or senseless behavior [syn: {folly}, {tomfoolery}, {craziness},
            {lunacy}, {indulgence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "foolery":
     Parthian shot, 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, 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