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Webster 1913 Edition
Foolery
Fool′er-y
,Noun.
pl.
Fooleries
. 1.
The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
As
As
foolery
in the wise, when wit doth dote. Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foolery
FOOL'ERY
,Noun.
1.
The practice of folly; habitual folly; attention to trifles.2.
An act of folly or weakness.3.
Object of folly.Definition 2024
foolery
foolery
English
Noun
foolery (plural fooleries)
- 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.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, Chapter 9,
- Tradesmen and clerks, with fashionable novel-reading families, and circulating-library-subscribing daughters, get up small assemblies in humble imitation of Almack’s, and promenade the dingy ‘large room’ of some second-rate hotel with as much complacency as the enviable few who are privileged to exhibit their magnificence in that exclusive haunt of fashion and foolery.
- 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' […]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 1,