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tomfoolery

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1812, OED Evaluation: N/A

The action or behaviour of a tom-fool; foolish or absurd action; silly trifling.

ExampleMeaning
Oh yeah, well, yeah there was a lot of people. I-don't-know if there'd be five hundred ah there was a lot of I-don't-know there was probably a good hundred fifty or-something-like-that. And there was tents and bonfires and tomfoolery I-don't-know just messing around and having a good time, like it was ah it was fun, it was like a carefree night where you have that license from everybody. It almost seemed like a license from the entire society just to get drunk and act- act like a dummy.
The action or behaviour of a tom-fool; foolish or absurd action; silly trifling.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What- what kind of things could happen on a bus that would- Speaker 45: Oh lots of tomfoolery that's still the tomfoolery today but you can't do anything about it. Back then they used to- You know throwing apples out windows or, you-know- They used to smoke and-everything back then.
The action or behaviour of a tom-fool; foolish or absurd action; silly trifling.