"bumfoolery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):",
          "text": "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...",
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          "ref": "2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:",
          "text": "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.)",
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          "ref": "2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):",
          "text": "Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.",
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          "ref": "2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:",
          "text": "Where compassion between men – not bumfoolery mind – but true compassion will prosper.",
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        "Messing about, often in a homosexual way."
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        "(slang) Messing about, often in a homosexual way."
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          "ref": "2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):",
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          "ref": "2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:",
          "text": "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.)",
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