Meaning of bumfoolery | Babel Free

Definitions

Messing about, often in a homosexual way.

slang, uncountable

Examples

“I'm prepared to bet⟳ I was more spaced when I wrote this indexed register⟳ bumfoolery than you were when you wrote whatever it was you wrote...”

“He refers to the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas at a cost⟳ $1 million and spending $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. If this is true, it certainly tops their old well-noted scandals of $90 hammers and $600 toilet seats. (Those numbers may not be the exact — giver or take⟳ — but they do illustrate⟳ the bumfoolery of the incidents.)”

“Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need⟳ to sniff the NIC and see⟳ what is really happening.”

“Where compassion between men – not bumfoolery mind⟳ – but true compassion will prosper.”

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