Buffoon!
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Buffoon
//bəˈfuːn//
Synonyms for "buffoon" (172 found)
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1 entriesderived
9 entriesdistinct from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γελωτοποιός noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Arabic
1 entries- مُهَرِّج noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Belarusian
1 entries- бла́зан noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- паля́чо noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- шут noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 小丑 noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- 活寶 /活宝 noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
Czech
4 entries- kašpar noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- kašpar noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
- klaun noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- šašek noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Dutch
2 entries- clown noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- sufferd noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
Esperanto
1 entries- bufono noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Finnish
4 entries- ilveilijä noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- mäntti noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
- narri noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- narri noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
French
1 entries- bouffon noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Galician
2 entries- alvardán noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- bufón noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
German
4 entries- Hanswurst noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- Kasper noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- Narr noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
- Närrin noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
Hindi
2 entries- भाँड noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- मसख़रा noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Hungarian
2 entries- pojáca noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- ripacs noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Ingrian
1 entries- petruška noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- شوت noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- مَسْخَرِه noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Irish
4 entries- abhlóir noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- drúth noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- fuirseoir noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- miodhlach noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Italian
2 entries- buffone noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- pagliaccio noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Macedonian
4 entries- палја́чо noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- шут noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- се глупи́ра verb (to behave like buffoon)
- се ше́гува verb (to behave like buffoon)
Māori
1 entries- heahea noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- میمون noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Noa noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Polish
2 entries- błazen noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- pajac noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Portuguese
2 entries- bufão noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- palhaço noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Romanian
1 entries- bufon noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Russian
4 entries- буффо́н noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- пая́ц noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- скоморо́х noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- фигля́р noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Sicilian
1 entries- buffuni noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Spanish
1 entries- bufón noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Swedish
3 entries- fjant noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
- pajas noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- pajas noun (unintentionally ridiculous person)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бла́зень noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- кло́ун noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Urdu
3 entries- بھانْڈ noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- مَسْخَرا noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
- مَسْخَرَہ noun (one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Tom is what my father would call a buffoon.
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What a buffoon!
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Zelensky may well be a buffoon, but he is hardly fascist.
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