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an amusing bit of foolery
it's foolery to expect me to let you shoplift that DVD
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Kim Kardashian walking around in cornrows after her husband saying that ‘slavery was a choice’ is 2018 foolery in a nutshell.
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The 30-second teaser aired after last week’s episode promises the usual tom-foolery, along with the queens going gaga over Shania.
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First Known Use of foolery
1552
foolery Synonyms
Synonyms
buffoonery, clownery, clowning, high jinks (also hijinks), horseplay, horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine(s), roughhouse, roughhousing, shenanigan(s), skylarking, tomfoolery;
Related Words
childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggery;
boisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, devilry (or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickery;
cavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness;
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