foolishnessn.

Brit.

/ˈfuːlᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈfulɪʃnᵻs/

Forms: see foolish adj. and n. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: foolish adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < foolish adj. + -ness suffix.

1. Foolish behaviour; lack of good sense or judgement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > quality or state

folly?c1225

foolishness1488

peevishness1523

apishness1533

foolage1578

silliness1602

goosishness1864

fooldom1867

noodleness1931

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 631 Quhat is this luff? No thing bot folychnes.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccli^v Who can rehers eche sort of folysshenes That vs mysgydeth through our mysordynaunce.

1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 47^v Folyshnes or vnlearnednes, is bounde together in the harte of a boy.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxviii. 5 My wounds stinke..because of my foolishness .

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 442 Converts their wisedome into foolishnesse.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 464 I..shape my Foolishness to their Desire.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. vi. 71 The foolishness of such a policy amused him.

2017 Times of India (Nexis) 28 May This is a very big tragedy for our entire family, only because of the foolishness and reckless driving of one man.

2. An instance of foolish or silly behaviour; a foolish practice or act.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour > instance of

unwitc1175

foliota1250

follyc1300

unwisdom1303

foolishness?1506

fooling?1545

foppery1546

foolery1562

filly-folly1565

impertinency1588

impertinence1603

silliness1624

idiotism1647

noddary1647

fondness1653

ineptitude1656

sottise1673

insipidity1822

bêtise1827

foolishment1871

jackassery1873

funny business1882

?1506 Thystorye vii. Wyse Maysters Rome (new ed.) sig. Pi The kynge answered: þ^t was a grete folysshnes of you þ^t ye wolde do ayenst y^e ordynaunce & wylle of god.

1600 R. Churche tr. M. Fumée Hist. Troubles Hungarie i. 4 For to write and discouer our vices, is a vaine foolishnes.

1673 R. Ward Two Theol. Treat. i. v. 117 It is a great foolishness for a man to sell a large Patrimony for a dish of broth; as Esau sold his birthright for a mess of Pottage.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence viii. 360 This is our Foolishness, and what a Foolishness is it, to study so late, what we are concern'd to know so soon.

1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 452/1 I do hope I've intelligence enough to keep up with you two and your games and foolishnesses.

1916 San Francisco Chron. 13 May 7/5 One of the favourite diversions of man is to rail at and ridicule ‘poor, weak woman’ for the foolishnesses that he encourages in her.

2003 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 33 242 [He is] frank about youthful foolishnesses from which he has learned wisdom and experience.

3. Nonsense, rubbish. Now Caribbean and North American.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye ix. sig C.8^v Thei ar al hypocryts and kursed and thei al speake folishnes.

1668 T. Ford Αυτοκατακριτος 71 The natural man cannot know spiritual things: But 'tis also said, They are foolishness to him, and he scorns them.

a1771 J. Gill Coll. Serm. & Tracts (1773) I. 4 Being without any spiritual discerning of the things of the Spirit of God, they pronounce them foolishness, and speak evil of the things they understand not.

1813 Crit. Rev. Jan. 54 Vetus never talks foolishness. He is uniformly wise.

1971 D. S. Joseph in B. Howes From Green Antilles 58 Well, me ain't believe in all this do-good foolishness. It don't work out.

2004 Cox News Service (Nexis) 30 Aug. Teachers don't have the time to come up with foolishness like this.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foolishness
释义	foolishnessn. Brit. /ˈfuːlᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfulɪʃnᵻs/ Forms: see foolish adj. and n. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: foolish adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < foolish adj. + -ness suffix. 1. Foolish behaviour; lack of good sense or judgement. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > quality or state folly?c1225 foolishness1488 peevishness1523 apishness1533 foolage1578 silliness1602 goosishness1864 fooldom1867 noodleness1931 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 631 Quhat is this luff? No thing bot folychnes. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccli^v Who can rehers eche sort of folysshenes That vs mysgydeth through our mysordynaunce. 1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 47^v Folyshnes or vnlearnednes, is bounde together in the harte of a boy. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxviii. 5 My wounds stinke..because of my foolishness . View more context for this quotation 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 442 Converts their wisedome into foolishnesse. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 464 I..shape my Foolishness to their Desire. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. vi. 71 The foolishness of such a policy amused him. 2017 Times of India (Nexis) 28 May This is a very big tragedy for our entire family, only because of the foolishness and reckless driving of one man. 2. An instance of foolish or silly behaviour; a foolish practice or act. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour > instance of unwitc1175 foliota1250 follyc1300 unwisdom1303 foolishness?1506 fooling?1545 foppery1546 foolery1562 filly-folly1565 impertinency1588 impertinence1603 silliness1624 idiotism1647 noddary1647 fondness1653 ineptitude1656 sottise1673 insipidity1822 bêtise1827 foolishment1871 jackassery1873 funny business1882 ?1506 Thystorye vii. Wyse Maysters Rome (new ed.) sig. Pi The kynge answered: þ^t was a grete folysshnes of you þ^t ye wolde do ayenst y^e ordynaunce & wylle of god. 1600 R. Churche tr. M. Fumée Hist. Troubles Hungarie i. 4 For to write and discouer our vices, is a vaine foolishnes. 1673 R. Ward Two Theol. Treat. i. v. 117 It is a great foolishness for a man to sell a large Patrimony for a dish of broth; as Esau sold his birthright for a mess of Pottage. 1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence viii. 360 This is our Foolishness, and what a Foolishness is it, to study so late, what we are concern'd to know so soon. 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 452/1 I do hope I've intelligence enough to keep up with you two and your games and foolishnesses. 1916 San Francisco Chron. 13 May 7/5 One of the favourite diversions of man is to rail at and ridicule ‘poor, weak woman’ for the foolishnesses that he encourages in her. 2003 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 33 242 [He is] frank about youthful foolishnesses from which he has learned wisdom and experience. 3. Nonsense, rubbish. Now Caribbean and North American. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye ix. sig C.8^v Thei ar al hypocryts and kursed and thei al speake folishnes. 1668 T. Ford Αυτοκατακριτος 71 The natural man cannot know spiritual things: But 'tis also said, They are foolishness to him, and he scorns them. a1771 J. Gill Coll. Serm. & Tracts (1773) I. 4 Being without any spiritual discerning of the things of the Spirit of God, they pronounce them foolishness, and speak evil of the things they understand not. 1813 Crit. Rev. Jan. 54 Vetus never talks foolishness. He is uniformly wise. 1971 D. S. Joseph in B. Howes From Green Antilles 58 Well, me ain't believe in all this do-good foolishness. It don't work out. 2004 Cox News Service (Nexis) 30 Aug. Teachers don't have the time to come up with foolishness like this. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488
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