tomfoolery

(tŏm-fū'lə-rē)
n., pl., -ies.

1. Foolish behavior.
2. Something trivial or foolish; nonsense.

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noun

1. Foolish behavior: absurdity, folly, foolery, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsense, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, zaniness. Informal craziness. See ability/inability.
2. Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness. Informal shenanigan (often used in plural). See good/bad.
3. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, trash, twaddle. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

tomfoolery
jewellery: she's all done up with tomfoolery

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noun

= tom² noun. (1931 —) .

[Rhyming slang for jewellery noun.]

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• Foolishness, Bunkum, and Trifles

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - dummestreger, narrestreger

Nederlands (Dutch)
malligheid

Français (French)
n. - pitreries, âneries

Deutsch (German)
n. - Blödsinn

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βλακεία, χαζομάρα, ανόητη συμπεριφορά

Italiano (Italian)
scemenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tolice (f), disparate (m), patetice (f)

Русский (Russian)
дурачество, шутовство

Español (Spanish)
n. - estupidez, tontería

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dårskap, tokigheter, skoj, dumma skämt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
愚蠢的举动, 无聊

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 愚蠢的舉動, 無聊

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 멍텅구리 짓, 광대짓, 하찮은 것

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ばかな言動, くだらないこと

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سخافه, جنون, حماقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התנהגות טיפשית, טיפשות, שטות‬

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