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Fooling   /fˈulɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Fool  v. t.  
1.
To infatuate; to make foolish. "For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit."
2.
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. "You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent."
To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.


Fool  v. i.  (past & past part. fooled; pres. part. fooling)  
1.
To play the fool.
2.
To waste time in unproductive activity; to spend time in idle sport or mirth; to trifle; to toy.
Synonyms: fool around. "Is this a time for fooling?"





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"Fooling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Browning bids the "fooling" stop; for he has touched the point of extreme divergence between the classic spirit and his own. The pallid vision which he repels speaks dumbly of pagan regret for what is past, of pagan hopelessness of the to-come. His religion, as we are again reminded, is ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... it just hangs idle on your hands; it isn't any good for business, and you can't work a telephone with it. Many a time the attention of the missionaries has been called to this defect, and they are always promising they are going to fix it; but no, they go fooling along and fooling along, and nothing is done. Speaking of education, everybody there is educated, from the highest to the lowest; in fact, it is the only country in the world where education is actually universal. And yet every now and then ...
— A Ball Player's Career - Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson • Adrian C. Anson
... that was settled by the way the world has ground," the young man sighed. "Why should it bother you, my fooling with the forlorn and wretched—the others? Any more than I mind ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick
... Tutonians know their business," said Sam. "They won't stand any fooling. Just see how they have established peace! We have a ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... seated in the boxes, and found a crowded audience in full enjoyment of the quiet waggery of Keeley, who was fooling them to the top of their bent, accoutred from top to toe as Mynheer Punch the Great, while his clever little wife—who, by the way, possesses, I think, more of the "vis comica" than any actress of the day—caused sides to shake and eyes to water by her naive and humorous delineation ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


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