Usually means: Mischievous or foolish behavior or antics.
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  1. tomfoolery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tomfoolery: Merriam-Webster
  3. tomfoolery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tomfoolery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tomfoolery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tomfoolery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tomfoolery, tomfoolery: Wordnik
  8. tomfoolery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tomfoolery: Wiktionary
  10. tomfoolery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tomfoolery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tomfoolery: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tomfoolery: Dictionary.com
  14. tomfoolery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tomfoolery (film), Tomfoolery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tomfoolery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tomfoolery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tomfoolery: Rhymezone
  19. Tomfoolery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tomfoolery: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tomfoolery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Tomfoolery: The Word Detective
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  1. tomfoolery: Encyclopedia

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  1. tomfoolery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Foolish behaviour or speech.
▸ noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Jewellery.

Similar:
foolery, folly, indulgence, fooling, monkeyism, foolishment, tomfuckery, foolishness, foppery, unskill, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
foolishness, silliness, nonsense, madness, lunacy, idiocy, stupidity, more...

Adjectives:
such, general, sheer, mere, much, own, damned, emotional, little, romantic, pure



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Similar:
foolery, folly, indulgence, fooling, monkeyism, foolishment, tomfuckery, foolishness, foppery, unskill, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
foolishness, silliness, nonsense, madness, lunacy, idiocy, stupidity, more...

Adjectives:
such, general, sheer, mere, much, own, damned, emotional, little, romantic, pure



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