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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1812 playful or foolish behavior

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 foolish behaviour; nonsense. 2 an instance of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tomfoolery Tom`fool"er*y, n. Folly; trifling.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Tomfoolery is playful behaviour, usually of a rather silly, noisy, or rough kind. Were you serious, or was that a bit of tomfoolery?

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Colloq.) Nonsense, folly, vagary, mummery, buffoonery, absurd trifling, monkey-tricks.

Moby Thesaurus

antic, balderdash, baloney, banter, blatherskite, buffoonery, caper, claptrap, clownishness, foolery, fooling, frolic, harlequinade, hogwash, horseplay, lark, malarkey, monkeyshine, monkeyshines, poppycock, rubbish, shenanigan, shenanigans, shines, trick, twaddle