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buffoonish

adj

Etymology

From buffoon + -ish.

  1. derived from buffone — “jester”
  2. borrowed from bouffon
  3. suffixed as buffoonish — “buffoon + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a buffoon.

    • Sisi once joked that he was a spy, drawing laughter from the rest because Segun with his habitual look of buffoonish imbecility, his mouth constantly hanging open, hands flailing, does not look smart enough to be a spy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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