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buffoon

noun
/bəˈfuːn/

Etymology

From Middle French bouffon, from Italian buffone (“jester”), from buffare (“to puff out the cheeks”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle High German buffen ("to puff"; > German büffen), Old English pyffan (“to breathe out, blow with the mouth”). More at English puff.

  1. derived from buffone — “jester”
  2. borrowed from bouffon

Definitions

  1. One who performs in a silly or ridiculous fashion

    One who performs in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.

    • To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances.

  2. An unintentionally ridiculous person.

  3. To behave like a buffoon

    • His mimicry of gay speech and facial expressions is analogous to an Amos 'n' Andy routine, in which white men buffooned their way through incredibly demeaning impersonations of black men.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at buffoon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01buffoon02fashion03practical04knowledge05appreciating06appreciative07gratitude08grateful09agreeable10pleasant

A definitional loop anchored at buffoon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at buffoon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA