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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOOL'ERY, n.
1. The practice of folly; habitual folly; attention to trifles.
2. An act of folly or weakness.
3. Object of folly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -eries) Date: 1552 1. a foolish act, utterance, or belief 2. foolish behavior

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 foolish behaviour. 2 a foolish act.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foolery Fool"er*y, n.; pl. Fooleries. 1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. --Shak. 2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. --Sir W. Raleigh.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fool'-er-i:

The plural "fooleries" occurs Ecclesiasticus 22:13 King James Version: "Talk not much with a fool .... and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries." The Greek word is entinagmos, "a striking or throwing in," "an attack," from entinasso, "to strike into," "cast at," etc. ( /APC 1Macc 2:36; 2Macc 4:41; 11:11). the Revised Version (British and American) renders "Thou shalt not be defiled in his onslaught," margin "defiled: in his onslaught turn." The meaning is most probably "with what he throws out," i.e. his foolish or vile speeches, as if it were slaver.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Absurdity, nonsense, folly, foolishness. 2. Buffoonery, tomfoolery, mummery, foolish conduct.

Moby Thesaurus

Parthian shot, asininity, back answer, banter, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, caustic remark, clownishness, comeback, crack, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cut, cutting remark, daffiness, desipience, dig, dump, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, fleer, flout, folly, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gibe, gibing retort, giddiness, goofiness, harlequinade, horseplay, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jab, jape, jeer, jest, leg-pull, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mock, monkeyshines, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, parting shot, put-down, put-on, queerness, quip, rude reproach, sappiness, scoff, screwiness, scurrility, senselessness, shenanigans, short answer, silliness, slam, slap, stupidity, swipe, taunt, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, twit, verbal thrust, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism