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foolery|ˈfuːlərɪ|
Also 7 follery.
[f. fool n.1 + -ery.]
1. The habit or practice of fooling or acting foolishly.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 211 But sike fansies weren foolerie. 1604Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 271 Whether Fox may not beare away the bell for follery. 1694Wood Life 23 June (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), An implacable enmity to immorality and foolery. 1725Watts Logic iv. ii. Rule 3 It is mere foolery to multiply distinct particulars in treating of things. 1813Sporting Mag. XLI. 227 The oddities and simple foolery of this man. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 38 An immoderate amount of foolery.
2. A piece of fooling; a foolish or ridiculous action, performance, or thing.
1552Latimer Serm. Eph. vi. in Fruitf. Serm. (1584) 198 It is not that [ringing of belles] that will serue against yt deuill: yet we haue beleued such fooleries in tymes past. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxi. (1612) 156 With..Fooleries more than few I courted her. 1657North's Plutarch Add. Lives (1676) 80 When they have turmoil'd themselves about such fooleries [Horoscopes] a long time, they gain nothing thereby. 1662Evelyn Diary 1 Jan., I went to London, invited to the solemn foolerie of the Prince de la Grange at Lincoln's Inn. 1772Town & C. Mag. 125 The pleasing levities, and agreable fooleries of a girl. 1830Athenæum 16 Oct., Sèvres china, buhl cabinets, Indian fans, and other fooleries. 1859Tennyson Vivien 263 Your pretty tricks and fooleries.
3. Fools as a class. nonce-use.
1843Sydney Smith Let. 19 Aug. in Mem. (1855) II. 494 He knows how to disguise liberal ideas, and to make them less terrible to the Foolery of a country. |