folly
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Is folly a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.Examples: "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. […]”"; "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."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (dialectal) To follow.Examples: ""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.""; "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."dialectal
noun (English)
1. (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).Examples: "'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."; "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 …"
Definition source: Wiktionary