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a.
Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.
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.
v. t.
To treat with buffoonery.
v. i.
To act the part of a buffoon.
n.
The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
pl.
of Buffoonery
n.
A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
n.
A buffoon.
a.
Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.
n.
The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
n.
That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
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.
n.
State or character of a zany; buffoonery.
n.
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
n.
The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
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.
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Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.
n.
A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
n.
A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.
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One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
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