Usually means: Engaging in playful or silly behavior.
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  1. goofing: Merriam-Webster
  2. goofing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. goofing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Goofing, goofing: Wordnik
  5. goofing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. goofing: Wiktionary
  7. goofing: Dictionary.com
  8. goofing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. goofing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. goofing: Idioms

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  1. goofing: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The making of mistakes or blunders.

Similar:
blunder, fathead, zany, sin, boob, jackass, cuckoo, goose, goof-up, gaffe, more...

Types:
pun, malapropism, slip of the tongue, Freudian slip, malaphor, eggcorn, malaprop, more...

Phrases:
Goofing off, goofing around, goofing on, more...

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Similar:
blunder, fathead, zany, sin, boob, jackass, cuckoo, goose, goof-up, gaffe, more...

Types:
pun, malapropism, slip of the tongue, Freudian slip, malaphor, eggcorn, malaprop, more...

Phrases:
Goofing off, goofing around, goofing on, more...



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