fooling

fooling
Synonyms and related words:
badinage, bamboozlement, banter, bantering, befooling, bluffing, booing, buffoonery, calculated deception, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, circumvention, clownishness, conning, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, derision, derisive, derisory, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, exchange, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fiddling, fleering, flimflam, flimflammery, flippancy, flippant, flirtation, fond illusion, foolery, fooling around, give-and-take, good-natured banter, grinning, hallucination, harlequinade, harmless teasing, hazing, high jinks, hissing, hoodwinking, hooting, horseplay, idling, illusion, jape, jeering, jerking off, jest, jesting, jive, joke, joking, jollying, josh, joshing, kidding, kidding around, leering, levity, loitering, messing around, mirage, mockery, mocking, monkeying, monkeying around, monkeyshines, outwitting, overreaching, panning, persiflage, phantasm, piddling, playing, playing around, pleasantry, pottering, puttering, putting on, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ribbing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, roughhouse, rowdiness, scoffing, self-deception, shenanigans, skylarking, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smattering, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, sport, subterfuge, swindling, taunting, teasing, tinkering, tomfoolery, toying, trickiness, tricking, trifling, twit, twitting, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • fooling — [n] joking, tricks bluffing, buffoonery, clownishness, farce, frolicking, high jinks*, horseplay, jesting, joshing, kidding, making light*, mockery, nonsense, pretense, roughhouse*, roughhousing*, rowdiness, sham*, skylarking*, spoofing, teasing …   New thesaurus

  • 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. [1913 Webster] Is this a time for fooling? Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fooling — adjective characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility (Freq. 1) a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter • Syn: ↑casual • Similar to: ↑light • Derivationally related forms: ↑casualness …   Useful english dictionary

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  • fooling — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. joking, jesting, pretending, feigning, humorous, deceitful, waggish, roguish, impish, teasing, bantering, trifling, jovial, frivolous, flippant, droll, insincere, misleading, prankish, light, frolicking, facetious, tongue …   English dictionary for students

  • fooling — fuːl n. idiot, dummy; clown; court jester v. play a joke on, trick; act like a fool; joke, play around …   English contemporary dictionary

  • fooling — 1. одурачивание 2. дурачащийся; дурачащий …   English-Russian travelling dictionary

  • just fooling — just/only/fooling spoken phrase pretending that something is true, as a joke Don’t look so worried – I was only fooling. Thesaurus: to tell a joke or jokessynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • only fooling — just/only/fooling spoken phrase pretending that something is true, as a joke Don’t look so worried – I was only fooling. Thesaurus: to tell a joke or jokessynonym …   Useful english dictionary

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