Word Meanings - BUFFOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew. (more info) of wind, vanity, nonsense, trick), fr. bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their

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A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew. (more info) of wind, vanity, nonsense, trick), fr. bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their cheeks for the amusement of the

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• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• ANTICLY
  Oddly; grotesquely.
• ANTICHLOR
  Any substance used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• HARLEQUINADE
  A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. Macaulay.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• PUFF-LEGGED
  Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
• ANTICIPANT
  Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.
• PUFFINESS
  The quality or state of being puffy.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• ANTIC
  "Lords of antic fame." Phaer. 2. Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller. (more info) 1.
• ANTICIPATIVE
  Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• INFANTICIDE
  The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. (more info) antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,