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fooling about

fooling about is the present participle and gerund of fool about.

Meaning of fool about

Verb

fool about (third-person singular simple present fools about, present participle fooling about, simple past and past participle fooled about)

  1. (intransitive) to fool around

Questions about fooling about

What is fooling about the present participle and gerund of?
Fooling about is the present participle and gerund of fool about.

Words near fooling about in the dictionary

  1. foolify
  2. fooligan
  3. fooligans
  4. foolin'
  5. fooling
  6. fooling about
  7. fooling along
  8. fooling around
  9. fooling away
  10. fooling up
  11. fooling with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fooling about (page history and authors); fool about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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