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BUFFOONERY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of BUFFOONERY is foolish or playful behavior or practice.
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Buffoonery - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
Buffoonery means acting like a clown. Notice how buffoon sounds like puff? Well, they're related. Buffare is an Italian word meaning puff out the cheeks.
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buffoonery - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
buffoonery (countable and uncountable, plural buffooneries). The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness. 1693, [William] Congreve, The Old ...
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buffoonery
buffoonery (bəˈfuːnərɪ) Also 7 buffonnerie, 7–8 buffon-, buffoonry. [f. buffoon n. + -ery.] The practice of a buffoon; low jesting or ridicule, farce.1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 450 Flatterie and Buffonrie swayed all in the Romane Senate. 1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 685 Ianglery, buffonnerie, and su...
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258 Synonyms & Antonyms for BUFFOONERY | Thesaurus.com
buffoonery · amusement · badinage · banter · clowning · comedy · comicality · drollery · facetiousness · farce · flippancy · fun · funniness · gag · gaiety ...
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Buffoonery - Websters Dictionary 1828
BUFFOON'ERY, noun The arts and practices of a buffoon; low jests; ridiculous pranks; vulgar tricks and postures. Dryden has placed the accent improperly on ...
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The Flowers of Buffoonery
The narrator of The Flowers of Buffoonery uses the masculine first-person pronoun to refer to himself. Donald Keene, a translator of Dazai's novels No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, praises The Flowers of Buffoonery as the first work in which "Dazai's
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BUFFOONERY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
the behavior of a person who does silly things, usually to make other people laugh. Her performance was sheer buffoonery. His buffoonery was becoming tiresome.
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BUFFOONERY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
noun amusement by means of usually physical or visual tricks, jokes, etc.: The play swings from absurd buffoonery to high tragedy.
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BUFFOONERY Synonyms: 53 Similar Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for BUFFOONERY: hijinks, clowning, joking, tomfoolery, clownery, funning, horseplay, monkeying, foolery, slapstick.
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Buffoonery - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
"Lowery" originates from "buffoon" + "-ery" (1620s) and means low jokes or vulgar pranks, reflecting foolish or crude behavior.
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buffoonery
buffoonery/-ərɪ; -ərɪ/ n[U]ridiculous behaviour; clowning 滑稽可笑的举动; 扮小丑.
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Balakirev the Buffoon
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Buffoon of the court circle, Ivan Balakirev, is a constant participant of the Tzar's festivities and buffoonery.
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buffian
† buffian Obs. [? variant of buffoon, suggested by ruffian.] = buffoon. Hence buffianism, buffoonery.1655 Comic. Hist. Francion x. 13 It becometh not a man of my Learning to be so great a Buffian. 1596 Nashe Have with you, &c. M iv b, No buffianisme throughout his whole bookes, but they bolstered ou...
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Violí de bufa
The word means "buffoonery" in Spanish.
References
Catalan musical instruments
Bass monochords
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