Crossword clues for tomfoolery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tomfoolery \Tom`fool"er*y\, n. Folly; trifling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"foolish trifling," 1812, from tomfool + -ery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 foolish behaviour 2 (context Cockney rhyming slang English) jewellery.
WordNet
n. foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]
Wikipedia
Tomfoolery'' (German:Allotria'') is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Willi Forst and starring Renate Müller, Jenny Jugo and Anton Walbrook. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin on 12 June 1936. A pair of friends fall in love with the same woman, before realizing they are really in love with two other women. Racing to his romantic interest, one of the friends ( Heinz Rühmann) takes by chance part in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Joseph Goebbels remarked: "Quite energetic and lively. But it's overdone and therefore not totally satisfying. Less would be more." (original: „Sehr flott und mit viel Tempo. Aber übertrieben an Effekten, und darum nicht ganz befriedigend. Weniger wäre mehr.“)
Usage examples of "tomfoolery".
That is, he felt he should, whether he wanted to see the muckworm or not, to find out what all the tomfoolery was about and put a stop to it.
Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops--news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth--an array of masks and noses.
Barney Kantor lives in his little world of pretense and tomfoolery, believing he is a press agent extraordinaire.
All along, I had been feeling sorry for him because that general looked like the kind of gent who would stand for just so much tomfoolery before he lowered the boom.