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Definitions
acting like a clown or buffoon
Word origin
From buffoon + -ery.
Used in a sentence
“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; […]”
“[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; […]”
“[…] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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