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Fooling

Fool \Fool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.] To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Is this a time for fooling?
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fooling

c.1600, verbal noun from fool (v.).

Wiktionary
fooling

n. The act of one who fools. vb. (present participle of fool English)

WordNet
fooling

adj. characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" [syn: casual]

Usage examples of "fooling".

And he made me wild too--hunting me about the house, fooling about with his revolver, locking and unlocking doors.

I should never have thought of him but for his coming to me and fooling me, I shall never forgive him till he is out of my sight.

Pinching off the nose, smothering, fooling with med lines, injecting succinyl, insulin, potassium.

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Cease fooling on weak waifs who love and wed But as the unweeting Urger may bestead!

No fooling that woman with threats of terrorist missles or warlording anti-Christs.

It was surprise, more than fear of the gun, although any one could tell that Punning Parker was not fooling.

The fiction that this was due only to a reshuffling following the collapse of the Gorlot Regency was not fooling many, but it kept hysteria under control.

Poppy put her right foot up on the coffee table and began fooling with her sneaker lace, like it was loose and she needed to retie it.

General Scalene puts on the skin and just walks out the front door, fooling all your scanners on the way.

When he was a kid in Walker, he and his sister were a fooling around and before he knew it, he done been screwing her for almost 9 months.

After the tenth grade she was flunking everything but fooling with her hair night and day so I shipped her off to beauty school.

What are you fooling along on our wagon track for, when you could have trailed the herd in a long lope?

He developed such a reputation from fooling around at the housefront that everyone became afraid of him.

The dirty feeling of being an agent for a foreign power, juxtaposed with the thrill of fooling a whole legion of government spooks.

Aiffe was fooling around one pleasant afternoon, trying to call somebody through time, anybody, and she locked onto Mansa Musa, pure chance.