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rowdiness
[rou-dee] 
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fooling
[fool]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joking, tricks |
| Synonyms: | bluffing, buffoonery, clownishness, farce, frolicking, high jinks, horseplay, jesting, joshing, kidding, making light, mockery, nonsense, pretense, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, sham*, skylarking, spoofing, teasing, trifling |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practical joke; frivolity |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, caprice, escapade, fancy, fooling, frolic, gag, gambol, high jinks, horseplay, hotfoot, lark, levity, lightness, monkeyshines, play, put-on, rib, rollick, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, shenanigans, shine*, skylarking, spoof, sport, tomfoolery, trick, whim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disorderly conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
| Synonyms: | aggro, breach of peace, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly behavior, disruption, disruptiveness, disturbance of the peace, hoodlumism, hooliganism, riotousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism |
| Main Entry: | roughhouse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | roughness |
| Synonyms: | horseplay, rowdiness |
| Main Entry: | disorderliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | fractiousness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | fractiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | disorderliness, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, roughness, rowdiness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unmanageableness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | shenanigan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prank |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, caprice, escapade, fancy, fooling, frolic, gag, gambol, high jinks, horseplay, hotfoot, joke, lark, levity, lightness, monkeyshines, play, put-on, rib, rollick, roughhouse, roughhousing, rowdiness, shenanigans*, shine*, skylarking, spoof, sport*, tomfoolery, trick, whim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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