follynoun詞源 1/ˈfɒli/

• 1

  Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

  • It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.
  • With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly.
• 2

  Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.

  • The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
  • 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.
• 3

  architectureA fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.

  • A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
  • “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. […]”

follyverb詞源 2/ˈfɒli/

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  dialectalTo follow.

  • "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?"
  • "Anybody got the makin's?" he said. "That's one hell of a thick bunch of canvas, but I follied the seam."

follynoun詞源 3/ˈfɒli/

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  A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).

  • 'Every hill seems to have a Folly' [...] 'I mean a clump of trees on the top.'
  • 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.