Definition of "foolery" []

• Foolish behavior or speech. (noun)
• An instance of foolish behavior or speech; a jest. (noun)

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• "Daisy, Daisy, "said he, shaking her shoulders gently," this religious foolery is spoiling you."
• "No man can threaten me, even anonymously or in foolery."
• ""I can only foresee," he exclaimed, "the working-classes of Europe uniting in a great federation to cry: 'We will have no more of this madness and foolery, which is grinding us to powder!'""