tomfoolery
pronunciation
How to pronounce tomfoolery in British English:
UK [tɒmˈfu:ləri]
How to pronounce tomfoolery in American English:
US [tɑmˈfuləri]
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- Noun:
- foolish or senseless behavior
Word Origin
- tomfoolery (n.)
- "foolish trifling," 1812, from tomfool + -ery.
Example
- 1. How can we stop this tomfoolery ?
- 2. I personally love his humour and his sense of tomfoolery .
- 3. Right , that 's enough of this tomfoolery , it 's time you got on with some work .
- 4. But , I the most dear , why you can 't come to a stop again to embrace my term I act in pettish term I commited tomfoolery ?
- 5. On how polar bear moms subtly initiate their young into the rights of predation through tomfoolery .