tomfoolery
IPA: tˈɑmfˈuɫɝi
noun
- Foolish behaviour or speech.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Jewellery.
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Examples of "tomfoolery" in Sentences
- Americans will always fall for this kind of tomfoolery, Stevey.
- But neither can the kind of tomfoolery engaged in by this very foolish Pope.
- But when Barber saw the curtains, he called them "tomfoolery," and tore them down.
- Whatever we get in November, it least it won't be Billary and this kind of tomfoolery!
- Five millennia of economic tomfoolery is bound to leave Egyptians confused about economic principles.
- She made fun of what she called his tomfoolery, which prevented him from turning his position to account.
- "Be a change for us city chaps," he suggested; and then exploding at what he called his "tomfoolery," set the dining-net all a-quivering and shaking.
- Many of the Whigs were opposed to these, regarding them as a thrust at Badger, the Register saying that they were "tomfoolery" and the work of "political mountebanks," but almost as many considered them as entirely proper, eminently timely, if indeed not rendered absolutely necessary by the national situation.
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