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单词 fooling
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foolingn.

Brit. /ˈfuːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfulɪŋ/
Forms: see fool v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fool v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < fool v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of fool v. (in various senses), esp. silly or joking behaviour; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun]
jocularya1500
fooling?1545
clownage1590
buffoonizing1611
tomfoolery1812
clownery1821
tomfooling1823
clowning1861
jazzbo1914
slapstick1926
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
?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches xvii. sig. Q.vj Thys malygnaunt muster in their copes, crosses, oyles, myters, robes, rellyckes, ceremonyes, vygyls, holye dayes, blessynges, sensynges, and folynges.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iv. sig. E.ij What gaudyng and foolyng is this afore my doore?
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B2 The excellency of his fooling.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1695) 99 Knipper-dolings, Who troubled Munster with their foolings.
1746 T. Church Some Remarks J. Wesley's Last Jrnl. 131 I am glad you give this fooling up.
1820 R. Southey Devil's Walk xxviii You will not think, great Cosmocrat! That I spend my time in fooling.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Nov. 1335/2 To the medical reader there is often more excellent fooling in the daily newspapers than in the professedly comic journals. The fun is unintentional, of course.
2015 Stud. Philol. 112 353 Marvell's fooling with the nature of the book..hints at a vital link with the materialistic poetics of The Dunciad.
2. With qualifying adjective in adverbial phrases with in or into. The mood or mental state for jesting or acting in an amusing or ridiculous manner. Now rare and archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct
harlotryc1384
May game1571
scogginism1593
buffianism1596
delirium1599
fooling1602
scoggery1602
buffoonism1611
nonsense1612
scurrility1614
buffoonery1621
buffooninga1672
buffoon1780
pantomime1781
zanyism1823
harlequinade1828
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. v. sig. H2 When will you be in good fooling of your selfe, Fidler?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 30 Put me into good fooling . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 21, 77. Beshrew me, the knights in admirable fooling.
1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 21 June (1946) 108 Sir Adam was in high foolling, and we had an amazing deal of laughing.
1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 193/2 Beshrew me, Edmund, you're in good fooling this morning!

Phrases

no fooling: used to emphasize the truth of a statement; ‘I am not joking’, ‘no kidding’.
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1865 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 4 Feb. The great desire of American travelers is travel, and no fooling, even at the expense of breaking your bones.
1943 D. Powell Time to be Born (new ed.) vi. 132 If you were twenty years younger I'd make a play for you, no fooling.
2014 L. L. Miller Big Sky Secrets iv. 88 She'd be right back, honest to God, no fooling, cross her heart and hope to die.

Compounds

With following adverbs, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs (see fool v. Phrasal verbs 1), esp. in fooling about, fooling around: playful, joking, or frivolous behaviour; adulterous or casual sexual behaviour.
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1697 J. Whitrowe Faithful Warnings sig. A8 The Cause of your fooling away so Great a Glory, for so frivolous Vanities, and false Delights.
1878 Canad. Monthly Mar. 237/2 No parties! no fooling about! no society! What a life!
1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 114/2 The breaking up of at least nine-tenths of marriages is due to outside fooling around.
2019 Telegraph (Nexis) 28 Nov. The joy, the risk-taking, the fooling about with friends.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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