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Buffoonery definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUFFOON'ERY, n. The arts and practices of a buffoon; low jests; ridiculous pranks; vulgar tricks and postures.
Dryden has placed the accent improperly on the first syllable.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -eries) Date: 1621 foolish or playful behavior or practice

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buffoonery Buf*foon"er*y, n.; pl. Buffooneries. [F. bouffonnerie.] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a ``What makes you blush?'' --Spectator.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh. (OLD-FASHIONED)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Jesting (of a low sort), mummery, foolery, tomfoolery, harlequinade, low pranks, vulgar tricks.

Moby Thesaurus

acting, asininity, banter, battiness, brainlessness, business, characterization, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gag, giddiness, goofiness, ham, hammy acting, harlequinade, hoke, hokum, horseplay, idiocy, imbecility, impersonation, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, lunacy, madness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mindlessness, monkeyshines, mummery, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, queerness, representation, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shenanigans, silliness, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, stupidity, taking a role, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism