See buffoonery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]",
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"ref": "1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of the Manner of Satan’s Acting and Carrying on His Affairs in This World, and Particularly of His Ordinary Workings in the Dark, by Possession and Agitation”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: […], London: […] T. Warner, […], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 222:",
"text": "[W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]",
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"ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 273:",
"text": "[…] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.",
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"ref": "before 1891: P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576",
"text": "The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries."
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"ref": "2025, “Pavement Bikes”, in Surly Bikes, retrieved 21 Feb 2025:",
"text": "Preamble is a hard-boiled steel commuter built for comfort, durability, and buffoonery on pavement and gravel.",
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"The behavior of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness."
],
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"buffoon",
"buffoon"
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"ipa": "/bəˈfuːnəɹi/",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klauniáda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "pelleily"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Clownerie"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hanswursterei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hanswurstiade"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Possenreißerei"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "bolondozás"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "abhlóireacht"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pagliacciata"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "palávština",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пала́вштина"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "budaláština",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "будала́штина"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gafsprǣċ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"roman": "šut-bâzi",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "شوت بازی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bufonada"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "błazenada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "buffonáda",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "буффона́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "figljárstvo",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "фигля́рство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "klounáda",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "клоуна́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "šutovstvó",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "шутовство́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bufonería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bufonada"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "maskaralık"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "soytarılık"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery",
"word": "şaklabanlık"
}
],
"word": "buffoonery"
}
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