▪ I. buˈffooning, vbl. n.
[f. buffoon v. + -ing1.]
The action of playing the buffoon; low jesting, buffoonery. Also attrib.
| a 1672 Wood Life (1848) 43 Mirth..buffooning and bantering. 1811 Byron Let. to Mr. Dallas 21 Aug., The two stanzas of a buffooning cast..are as well left out. |
▪ II. buˈffooning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That plays the buffoon; coarsely jesting, mocking.
| 1718 Motteux Quix. (1733) III. 101 That buffooning Devil shall never 'scape unpunished. 1763 J. Brown Poetry & Mus. vii. 153 It was..as illiberal and buffooning in its Beginnings as the old Comedy had been. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xix. 256 The buffooning authors of the mischief. |