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noun

Foolery n. (pl. fooleries)

The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity. "Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote."

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."

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Etymology of 'Foolery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foolery" Quotes from Famous Books

... employed in checkmating his King, who was at Oxford in winter quarters, and having neither the power nor opportunity to meddle with the details of an execution. The incident, in a word, is worth as much and as little as the abominable story of the subsequent pact with Lucifer or the foolery of ...

— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite

... like that," said Harry. "You get us into a precious hobble through sheer wanton foolery, and then you expect me to ...

— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng

... "Let's have no more foolery," said the Yorkshireman roughly. "I know that you've come up from Colonel Boundary and I know what you've come for. You want to buy my mill, eh? Well, I'll make it worth your while not to buy my mill. You can ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... Such foolery as this and at such a time irritated me sorely; but there was no help for it now. Whether I should or should not open to him the subject that had taken me thither, I must, I saw, let him have his humour till the woman ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... Betsey had been doing that which was unlawful, and that I was a party to her plans. And so I could not sleep for a long time; not, indeed, until the light of morning began to stream through the cottage window, and then I felt to laugh at it all. Betsey's signs and Betsey's words were so much foolery, while the conversation about the buried treasure was no more true than the stories which were believed in superstitious days. Besides, thoughts of Naomi drove away all else, although everything came back to me afterward. When my fears went, however, ...

— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking

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