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{
"ref": "2008, Lich King, “Black Metal Sucks”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught",
"text": "Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown",
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"word": "مُهَرِّج"
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"word": "ծաղրածու"
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"word": "小丑"
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"word": "pallaso"
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "კლოუნი"
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"word": "quiasaarisartoq"
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"word": "विदूषक"
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"word": "जोकर"
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"word": "bohóc"
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"word": "ピエロ"
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"word": "道化師"
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"word": "어릿광대"
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],
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{
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{
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"word": "കോമാളി"
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
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],
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{
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],
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{
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"tags": [
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{
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"word": "دلقک"
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{
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],
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],
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],
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palhaço"
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
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],
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},
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bufon"
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{
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"code": "ro",
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"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
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],
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{
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],
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},
{
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "klaun"
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
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],
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],
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"tags": [
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"tags": [
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],
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],
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
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],
"word": "pajas"
},
{
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"word": "payaso"
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "ตัวตลก"
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{
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "palyaço"
},
{
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "klóun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
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"code": "uz",
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"word": "kloun"
},
{
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"code": "uz",
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "masxaraboz"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 12 8 7 6 9",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "hề"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 12 8 7 6 9",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clown"
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{
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"code": "yi",
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"roman": "payats",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּאַיאַץ"
}
]
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"Work",
"Human",
"Human activity",
"All topics",
"Human behaviour",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
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"text": "He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks."
}
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}
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"code": "af",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "nar"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "af",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "hanswors"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muharrij",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُهَرِّج"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "afb",
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"roman": "aragōz",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"Gulf-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ارقوز"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "ast",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "payasu"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šut",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "paljáčo",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "паля́чо"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "pelle"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bouffon"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bouffonne"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pitre"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guignol"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiot"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "idiote"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "andouille"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mariole"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Trottel"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "Witzfigur"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"roman": "paliátsos",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "karagkiózis",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "bohóc"
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{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "galgopi"
},
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glanni"
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grallari"
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{
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"word": "petruška"
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{
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "áilteoir"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "buffone"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "buffona"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "道化"
},
{
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"roman": "klovn",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кловн"
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{
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
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{
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "kiri hangareka"
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{
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bouffon"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "دلقک"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "šut",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "شوت"
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{
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pajac"
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "błazen"
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palhaço"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
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"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
},
{
"_dis1": "12 45 24 15 5 0",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"glosses": [
"A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71",
"text": "He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel."
],
"links": [
[
"churl",
"churl"
],
[
"yokel",
"yokel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 54, numbers 5-8, page 32",
"text": "While the tomato clownfish Amphiprion frenatus has been spawned in captivity, wild-caught tomato clowns are more often seen for sale.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A clownfish."
],
"links": [
[
"clownfish",
"clownfish"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klaʊn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊn"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clown.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clown.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "kloun"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "person who acts in a silly fashion",
"word": "fool"
},
{
"word": "jester"
},
{
"word": "& laughingstock"
},
{
"word": "clowne"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "cloyne"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "nar"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "harlekyn"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "paljas"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "hanswors"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gaztor"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klloun"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palaço"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muharrij",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مُهَرِّج"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "belyatšo",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "بلياتشو"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bahlawān",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "بهلوان"
},
{
"code": "afb",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "aragōz",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Gulf-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ارقوز"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muharrij",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic"
],
"word": "مهرج"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "aragōz",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "أرقوز"
},
{
"code": "apc",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muharrij",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"North-Levantine-Arabic"
],
"word": "مهرج"
},
{
"code": "ajp",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muharrij",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"South-Levantine-Arabic"
],
"word": "مهرج"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "caġracu",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "ծաղրածու"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "payasu"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "kloun"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "oyunbaz"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kloŭn",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "клоўн"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klóun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pallasso"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pallassa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎochǒu",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "小丑"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klaun"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clown"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "klaŭno"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klaŭnino"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "íspegil"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovnur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "klovni"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "pelle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clown"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "clownesse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pitre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bouffon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bouffonne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pallaso"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳlouni",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "კლოუნი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Clown"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Clownin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "klóoun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κλόουν"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paliátsos",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "παλιάτσος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "gelotopoiós",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γελωτοποιός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "gelōtopoiós",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "γελωτοποιός"
},
{
"code": "kl",
"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "quiasaarisartoq"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "leitsán",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "לֵיצָן"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "leytsanit",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ליצנית"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vidūṣak",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "विदूषक"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "jokar",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "जोकर"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "bohóc"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trúður"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "klauno"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "badut"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "áilteoir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pagliaccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pagliaccia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "piero",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "ピエロ"
},
{
"alt": "どうけし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōkeshi",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "道化師"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "kloun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "клоун"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eoritgwangdae",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "어릿광대"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gwangdae",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "광대"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "piero",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "피에로"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "kloun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "клоун"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scurra"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sanniō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "balatrō"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klauns"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "klovn",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кловн"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "paljáčo",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "палја́чо"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "badut"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kōmāḷi",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "കോമാളി"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "jokar",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "जोकर"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "łą́ʼátʼíinii"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "haashchʼéídóó"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bajas"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palhassa"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dalqak",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "دلقک"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spucht"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klaun"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "błazen"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palhaço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palhaça"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clovn"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bufon"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bufonă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "măscărici"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paiață"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clown"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klóun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šut",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pajác",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пая́ц"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "клаун"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кловн"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klaun"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klaun"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klovnesa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "payaso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "payasa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clown"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clon"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "clown"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pajas"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "payaso"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "masxaraboz",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "масхарабоз"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtuua-dtà-lòk",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "ตัวตลก"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"word": "palyaço"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "klóun",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "performance artist working in a circus",
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"code": "af",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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{
"code": "ast",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "pelle"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pitre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guignol"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "idiot"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "idiote"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mariole"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Trottel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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},
{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "el",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "el",
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"masculine"
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{
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glanni"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grallari"
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"code": "izh",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "petruška"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "áilteoir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "buffone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"roman": "dōke",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "道化"
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "mk",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "kiri hangareka"
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{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bouffon"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dalqak",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "دلقک"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "šut",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "شوت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pajac"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "błazen"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palhaço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palhaça"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paiață"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bufon"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bufonă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klóun",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кло́ун"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šut",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шут"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pajác",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пая́ц"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скоморо́х"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "figljár",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "фигля́р"
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{
"code": "ru",
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{
"code": "sl",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klovn"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "payaso"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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"code": "sw",
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"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
"word": "mcheshi"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person acting in a silly fashion",
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{
"code": "tg",
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{
"code": "uk",
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{
"code": "yi",
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"singular",
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{
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"present"
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{
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"past"
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},
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}
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"word": "coulrophobia"
},
{
"word": "jester"
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{
"word": "jackpudding"
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],
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"To act in a silly or playful fashion."
],
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"(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion."
],
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]
},
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"ref": "2002, Vibe, volume 10, number 11, page 62",
"text": "The show Dismissed was one of my favorites, because I like to see people get clowned.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Darrell Smith, Miracle Baby",
"text": "All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.",
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}
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"word": "clown"
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