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tomfoolery

/ˌtɒmˈfuːlə.ɹi//ˈtɑmˌful.ɚ.i/

tomfoolery noun: foolish behaviour or speech.

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.

tomfoolery meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

tomfoolery in Urdu

مسخر

tomfoolery in Malayalam

fooling around, silliness, clowning
പടുവിഡ്ഢിത്തം, മൂഢത്വം, മൂഢത, നിസ്സാരത്വം, ബാലിശത്വം, ക്യയില്ലായ്മ

tomfoolery in Kannada

ಮೂರ್ಖತನ, ತುಂಟಾಟ, ಹುಚ್ಚಾಟಿಕೆ, ಹೆಡ್ಡುನಡತೆ

Synonyms of tomfoolery

Forms of tomfoolery

pluraltomfooleries

Origin of tomfoolery

From Tom (“a common man”) + foolery.

Words formed from tomfoolery

Questions about tomfoolery

What does tomfoolery mean?
Tomfoolery means foolish behaviour or speech.
What is tomfoolery in Urdu?
Tomfoolery in Urdu is مسخر. See Tomfoolery meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tomfoolery?
Tomfoolery is a noun.
How do you pronounce tomfoolery?
Tomfoolery is pronounced /ˌtɒmˈfuːlə.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of tomfoolery?
The plural of tomfoolery is tomfooleries.

Words near tomfoolery in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tomfoolery (page history and authors); tomfoolery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tomfoolery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tomfoolery (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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