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tomfoolery

English

Etymology

From Tom (a common man) +? foolery.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?t?m?fu?l.?.?i/

Noun

tomfoolery (countable and uncountable, plural tomfooleries)

  1. Foolish behaviour or speech.
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery.

Synonyms

  • (foolish behaviour or speech): buffoonery

Translations

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skylarking

English

Etymology

From skylark +? -ing.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sk??l??k??/

Verb

skylarking

  1. present participle of skylark

Noun

skylarking (countable and uncountable, plural skylarkings)

  1. (originally nautical) Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
      [] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.

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