'Foolery' definitions:
Definition of 'foolery'
From: WordNet
noun
Definition of 'Foolery'
From: GCIDE
- Foolery \Fool"er*y\, n.; pl. Fooleries.
- 1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity. [1913 Webster]
- Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. [1913 Webster]
- That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foolery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asininity,
- back answer,
- banter,
- battiness,
- brainlessness,
- buffoonery,
- caustic remark,
- clownishness,
- comeback,
- crack,
- crackpottedness,
- crankiness,
- craziness,
- cut,
- cutting remark,
- daffiness,
- desipience,
- dig,
- dump,
- eccentricity,
- fatuity,
- fatuousness,
- fleer,
- flout,
- folly,
- foolheadedness,
- fooling,
- foolishness,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- gibe,
- gibing retort,
- giddiness,
- goofiness,
- harlequinade,
- horseplay,
- idiocy,
- imbecility,
- inanity,
- ineptitude,
- insanity,
- jab,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jest,
- leg-pull,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- mindlessness,
- mock,
- monkeyshines,
- niaiserie,
- nugacity,
- nuttiness,
- Parthian shot,
- parting shot,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- queerness,
- quip,
- rude reproach,
- sappiness,
- scoff,
- screwiness,
- scurrility,
- senselessness,
- shenanigans,
- short answer,
- silliness,
- slam,
- slap,
- stupidity,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- thoughtlessness,
- tomfoolery,
- triflingness,
- triviality,
- twit,
- verbal thrust,
- wackiness,
- weirdness,
- witlessness,
- zaniness,
- zanyism