foolery
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈfuːləɹi/
Noun

foolery

  1. Foolish behaviour or speech.
    • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 1,
      Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where.
    • 1910, John Millington Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows, in Plays by John M. Synge, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1910, Act I, p. 319,
      Though you think, maybe, young men can do their fill of foolery and there is none to blame them.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 1,
      He […] hurried off to the Centre, took part in the solemn foolery of a 'discussion group' […]
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