Synonyms for Buffoonery

Synonyms for "buffoonery" (90 found)

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Closest matches (18)

acting asininity banter battiness brainlessness business characterization clownishness crackpottedness crankiness craziness daffiness desipience eccentricity fatuity fatuousness folly

Noun(1 words)

clowning

Strong matches (27)

foolery foolheadedness fooling foolishness frivolity frivolousness gag giddiness goofiness ham hammy acting harlequinade hoke hokum horseplay idiocy imbecility impersonation inanity ineptitude

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insanity lunacy madness mimesis

Noun(3 words)

frivolity harlequinade japery

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More general

6 entries

craziness folly foolery indulgence lunacy tomfoolery

derived from

1 entries

buffoon

is a

1 entries

folly

related to

3 entries

buffoon foolishness silliness

Translations

22 translations across 12 languages.

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Czech

1 entries

klauniáda noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Finnish

1 entries

pelleily noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

German

4 entries

Clownerie noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
Hanswursterei noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
Hanswurstiade noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
Possenreißerei noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Hungarian

1 entries

bolondozás noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Irish

1 entries

abhlóireacht noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Italian

1 entries

pagliacciata noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Macedonian

2 entries

будала́штина noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
пала́вштина noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Old English

1 entries

gafsprǣċ noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Persian

1 entries

شوت بازی noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Polish

2 entries

bufonada noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
błazenada noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Russian

4 entries

буффона́да noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
клоуна́да noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
фигля́рство noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
шутовство́ noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Turkish

3 entries

maskaralık noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
soytarılık noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)
şaklabanlık noun (behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness)

Sample sentences

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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; […]

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[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; […]

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[…] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.

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The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.

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