bumfoolery

bumfoolery

English

Etymology

Blend of bum +‎ tomfoolery.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bumfoolery (uncountable)

1. (slang) Messing about, often in a homosexual way.
   • 2000 February 11, "Kira Brown" (username), "Re: Surveillance...TV prog.", in uk.rec.motorcycles, Usenet:

     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...

   • 2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:

     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.)

   • 2009 October 21, "Spamtastic Spastic" (username), "Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?", in uk.telecom.broadband, Usenet:

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

   • 2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:

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