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Buffoonry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of buffoonery. alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

    "[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; […]"

Etymology

From buffoon + -ry.

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