bumfoolery

bumfoolery noun: messing about, often in a homosexual way.

Noun

bumfoolery (uncountable)

(slang) Messing about, often in a homosexual way.
- I'm prepared to bet I was more spaced when I wrote this indexed register bumfoolery than you were when you wrote whatever it was you wrote...2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)
- He refers to the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas at a cost $1 million and spending $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. If this is true, it certainly tops their old well-noted scandals of $90 hammers and $600 toilet seats. (Those...2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer

Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):
Where compassion between men – not bumfoolery mind – but true compassion will prosper.2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:

Blend of bum + tomfoolery.

What does bumfoolery mean?: Bumfoolery means messing about, often in a homosexual way.
How do you use bumfoolery in a sentence?: Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.
What part of speech is bumfoolery?: Bumfoolery is a noun.

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