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单词 foolery
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fooleryn.

Brit. /ˈfuːləri/, U.S. /ˈfuləri/
Forms: 1500s–1600s foolerie, 1500s– foolery, 1600s follery.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fool n.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < fool n.1 + -ery suffix. Compare later tomfoolery n.
1. An instance of foolish behaviour; a foolish or ridiculous belief, action, or thing.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour > instance of
unwitc1175
foliota1250
follyc1300
unwisdom1303
foolishness?1506
fooling?1545
foppery1546
foolery1562
filly-folly1565
impertinency1588
impertinence1603
silliness1624
idiotism1647
noddary1647
fondness1653
ineptitude1656
sottise1673
insipidity1822
bêtise1827
foolishment1871
jackassery1873
funny business1882
1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 81v It is not that [sc. ringing of belles] that wyll serue against the diuell: yet we haue beleued such fooleries in tymes past.
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 139 With..Fooleries more than few I courted her.
1676 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia (new ed.) 80 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) When they have turmoil'd themselves about such fooleries [sc. Horoscopes] a long time, they gain nothing thereby.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1662 (1955) III. 307 I went to Lond: invited to the solemn foolerie of the Prince de la Grange at Lincolne Inn.
1772 Town & Country Mag. 125 The pleasing levities, and agreeable fooleries of a girl.
1830 Athenæum 16 Oct. Sèvres china, buhl cabinets, Indian fans, and other fooleries.
1997 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 25/3 [He] earnestly hoped that his wild son's fooleries would be forgotten.
2. Foolishness; foolish or silly behaviour.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour
ribaldyc1330
niceheada1475
simpleness?a1475
foolery1562
motley1575
foolationa1635
simples1637
nonsense1678
follying1818
boobery1829
spoonism1839
moonraking1846
lallygagging1868
bohunkus1918
twattery?1979
1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. v. f. 103v Peraduenture if we had this hemme, we wold make a great matter of it: which thing wer but foolery.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. f. 6v But sike fansies weren foolerie.
1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. vi. 271 Whether Fox may not beare away the bell for follery.
1725 I. Watts Logick iv. ii. Rule 3 It is mere foolery to multiply distinct particulars in treating of things.
1813 Sporting Mag. 41 227 The oddities and simple foolery of this man.
1920 R. A. Freeman Savant's Vendetta vi. 116 ‘Stop that foolery, Smith’, snarled the inspector.
2018 Daily Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 7 July That some bureau should instruct us on..how to run the day-to-day affairs of a spiritual organisation is foolery.
3. With the. Fools as a class. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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1843 S. Smith Let. 19 Aug. in Lady Holland Mem. S. Smith (1855) II. 494 He knows how to disguise liberal ideas, and to make them less terrible to the Foolery of a country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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