See folly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"text": "The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.",
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"Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence."
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"text": "A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.",
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},
{
"ref": "1984, William Gibson, chapter 14, in Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "“The Villa Straylight,” said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, “is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. […]”",
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},
{
"ref": "2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:",
"text": "It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "A great deal of eccentricity was expressed through the trend for ruin follies. But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.",
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"(architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons."
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "himarutʻyun",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "հիմարություն"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "glupost",
"sense": "foolishness",
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"word": "глупост"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "domheid"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "malsaĝeco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "mielettömyys"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "hulluus"
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"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "typeryys"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "folie"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sottise"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "folía"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Torheit"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Narrheit"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Dummheit"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tollheit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Aberwitz"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verrücktheit"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "dwaliþa",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌸𐌰"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "unfrōdei",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "aphrosúnē",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἀφροσύνη"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mōría",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μωρία"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ánoia",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἄνοια"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ivélet",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "איוולת \\ אִוֶּלֶת"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "butaság"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "ostobaság"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "díchiall"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amaidí"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "follia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stravaganza"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stultitia"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fatuitas"
},
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neprātība"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neprātīgums"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "glúpost",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глу́пост"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́дост"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "budaláština",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "будала́штина"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezúmie",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безу́мие"
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{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anchreeaght"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Domheit"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "głupota"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bobeira"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prostie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glúpostʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глу́пость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nedomýslije",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "недомы́слие"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "durʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дурь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažʹ",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "блажь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrassúdstvo",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безрассу́дство"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "foolishness",
"word": "amaideachd"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "amaideas"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу̏до̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "lȕdōst"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "locura"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "insensatez"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "necedad"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nescedad"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nesciencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dåraktighet"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "foolishness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dårskap"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezrazsǎdstvo",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безразсъдство"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chǔnshì",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "蠢事"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hullutus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hölmöily"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "hömpötys"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folía"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fahrlässigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Eselei"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Unsinn"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verrücktheit"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wahnwitz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "könnyelműség"
},
{
"alt": "ぐこう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gukō",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"word": "愚行"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neprātība"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nepromíslenost",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "непроми́сленост"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "głupstwo"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezrassúdstvo",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безрассу́дство"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "príxotʹ",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "при́хоть"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blažʹ",
"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "блажь"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"code": "gd",
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"tags": [
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"word": "amaideachd"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"feminine"
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"word": "лу̏до̄ст"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "thoughtless action",
"tags": [
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folly"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folie"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zierbau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prunkbau"
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{
"code": "it",
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"feminine"
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"code": "it",
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{
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "fanciful building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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"ref": "1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, page 23:",
"text": "\"You got any money?\" he said to me. ¶ \"Hell no, maybe enough for a pint of whisky till I get to Denver. What about you?\" ¶ \"I know where I can get some.\" ¶ \"Where?\" \"Anywhere. You can always folly a man down an alley, can't you?\"",
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"ref": "2002, Richard Kilroy O'Malley, Hobo: A Depression Odyssey, →ISBN, page 104:",
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"ref": "2012, Honor Molloy, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, Boston, M.A.: Gemma, →ISBN, page 43:",
"text": "Howandever, at the selfsame time, there was a gang of fellas from the valley of kings follying the very same pointy star. And didn't that pointy star point them king-fellas in the direction of Mary's cowstable.",
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɒli",
"Rhymes:English/ɒli/2 syllables",
"en:Buildings"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "feuille"
},
"expansion": "French feuille",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "foliage"
},
"expansion": "English foliage",
"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Uncertain. The most common theory is that term primarily denotes a clump of trees and relates to French feuille, feuillée and English foliage; it has also been suggested that it references some perceived connection or resemblance of the named place to an architectural folly, but many places so named have no architectural follies and cannot be named directly for them.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "follies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "folly (plural follies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fol‧ly"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880, Richard Jeffries, Greene Ferne Farm, page vi:",
"text": "'Every hill seems to have a Folly' [...] 'I mean a clump of trees on the top.'",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Orrin H. Pilkey, Mary Edna Fraser, A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands, page 69:",
"text": "Folly Beach, the next island to the south (batik 3.7), bears the name given it by mariners, who looked for the island's tree-crested dune ridge, a volley or folly of trees, as a navigation guide [...] Probably a lot of East Coast islands bore the temporary name of Folly Beach.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Buddy Sullivan, Richmond Hill, page 52",
"text": "During the 1920s and 1930s, Folly Farms (above) [referencing a photograph of a farmhouse surrounded by large trees] was owned by Mrs. Samuel Pennington Rotan of Pennsylvania, who was involved in the effort to improve medical care for the indigent people around Ways Station. … Folly Farms was originally known as Myrtle Grove …"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground)."
],
"qualifier": "largely obsolete outside place names",
"raw_glosses": [
"(largely obsolete outside place names) A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground)."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɑli/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɒli/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒli"
}
],
"word": "folly"
}
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