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Definition of Tomfooleries
1. tomfoolery [n] - See also: tomfoolery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomfooleries
Literary usage of Tomfooleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Companionship of Books and Other Papers by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1906)
"ECCLESIASTICAL tomfooleries Ecclesiastical tomfooleries have done more to discredit
religion than all the unbelieving books this world has ever seen or is ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"Why, no one can get a word or a smile out of her, since you came with your
tomfooleries! She keeps all her good humour for you, confound you ! ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"But we did not know of these queer old Spanish monkish tomfooleries (if they were
tomfooleries ; but the orthodox belief of one age is the superstition of ..."
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