Definition of buffoon

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Buffoon (n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew..

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Maidmarian :: Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes..
Fool :: Fool (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments..
Golyardeys :: Golyardeys (n.) A buffoon. See Gollard.
Clown :: Clown (n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc..
Antic :: Antic (n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
Drollery :: Drollery (n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
Vice :: Vice (n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity..
Scurrilous :: Scurrilous (a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow..
Jackpudding :: Jackpudding (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Mimic :: Mimic (n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon..
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Zany :: Zany (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Antic :: Antic (n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.
Mummery :: Mummery (n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
Buffoonly :: Buffoonly (a.) Low; vulgar.
Buffoonery :: Buffoonery (n.) The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures..
Pantaloon :: Pantaloon (n.) A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes..
Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
Japery :: Japery (n.) Jesting; buffoonery.
Buffoon :: Buffoon (a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon..
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