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tomfooleries

tomfooleries is the plural of tomfoolery.

Meaning of tomfoolery

Noun

tomfoolery (countable and uncountable, plural tomfooleries)

  1. Foolish behaviour or speech.
    • "Do not think THAT," I put in. "It was not so at all. I grant you that my behaviour was bad—I fully confess that it was so, and make no secret of the fact. I would even go so far as to grant you that my behaviour might well be called stupid and indecent tomfoolery; but, MORE than that it was not.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI)
    Synonyms:
    buffoonery
  2. (Cockney, slang) Jewellery.

Questions about tomfooleries

What is tomfooleries the plural of?
Tomfooleries is the plural of tomfoolery.

Words near tomfooleries in the dictionary

  1. Tomey
  2. Tomeys
  3. Tomești
  4. tomfool
  5. tomfooled
  6. tomfooleries
  7. tomfoolerous
  8. tomfoolery
  9. tomfooling
  10. tomfoolish
  11. tomfoolishness

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