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"text": "To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances.",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
"word": "小丑"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "भाँड"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "pagliaccio"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
"word": "heahea"
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"word": "میمون"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
"tags": [
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"word": "palhaço"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"tags": [
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"word": "шут"
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"word": "пая́ц"
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"roman": "skomoróx",
"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "скоморо́х"
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"roman": "figljár",
"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "фигля́р"
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"roman": "blazenʹ",
"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "блазень"
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"roman": "kloun",
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"sense": "unintentionally ridiculous person",
"word": "活寶"
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"sense": "unintentionally ridiculous person",
"word": "mäntti"
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"sense": "to behave like buffoon",
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"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"roman": "blazenʹ",
"sense": "one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion",
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"word": "блазень"
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"sense": "unintentionally ridiculous person",
"word": "活寶"
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"roman": "huóbǎo",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to behave like buffoon",
"word": "pelleillä"
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to behave like buffoon",
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"sense": "to behave like buffoon",
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"sense": "to behave like buffoon",
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