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单词 april 'foolery
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ˌApril 'foolery
ˌApril 'foolery n. the hoaxes or tricks associated with April Fool's Day; an instance of this.
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1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 119 Pigeon's milk, one of the favourite engines of April foolery, is as old as Aristophanes.
1848 M. Fuller Ossoli Let. 1 Apr. in R. W. Emerson et al. Mem. Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1860) II. 236 Yesterday, on returning from Ostia, I find the official news..that Italy is free... I trust this will prove no April foolery.
1967 Times 22 Mar. 22 The orders were the biggest bit of April foolery that had ever been played on the public.
2007 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 30 Mar. 13 The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades.
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