Definition of buffoon in English:

buffoon

noun bəˈfuːnbəˈfun

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.
荒唐滑稽的人；小丑
Example sentencesExamples
- Also on Sunday afternoon the ever-popular ‘Trivia with Annabelle’ will sort out the boffins from the buffoons, with lots of prizes up for grabs and plenty of fun to be had.
- I am usually quite controlled, but I was irritated that I was forced to spend my time with these sycophantic buffoons, and it occurred to me that I should for once try to extract a fee for my weekly generosity.
- On TV shows, leading men wore suits and came home from offices, not factories, while the occasional blue-collar protagonists who did appear were treated as buffoons.
- Along the same lines, there is an ad that features an incompetent buffoon who can't get his car stereo to work.
- Memo to Charles: the next time one of these buffoons wanders in and says ‘I'm a spin doctor and I'm here to help ’, run the other way.
- According to the script, Interpol is run by buffoons and they let a super bad guy named Snakehead get away when he was about to steal the life-giving medallion.
- He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons.
- However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context.
- By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons.
- Sit back and savour the antics and battle of wits unleashed by the team of buffoons, hold your breath at the breath-stopping show of trapeze artistes and the exciting fare dished out by acrobats on bicycles.
- Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers.
- Also, these buffoons have the cheek to complain about dogs savaging sheep, when their packs of hounds race around the countryside under very little control, regularly disposing of domestic pets unfortunate enough to cross their path.
- He mocked these buffoons and perhaps rendered them a bit too much in caricature, but then, the upper-class conservatives deserve to be ridiculed for their part in furthering the downfall of British society.
- If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think.
- Parody and satire work best when the target is worthy, with some fundamental flaw in their thinking or action that when exposed via a skilled humorist reveals them for the misguided buffoons that they are.
- Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area?
- And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons.
- There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center.
- Far from being a bunch of incompetent buffoons the agency was assigned the delicate task of choosing the target, keeping it a secret from other NATO allies and providing the necessary cover story once the bombing occurred.
- These two gentlemen chose to behave like buffoons and engaged in heckling each other, much to the alarm of the businessmen who were expecting some intelligent responses to their questions.
Synonyms
fool, idiot, dolt, ass, nincompoop, blockhead, dunce, dunderhead, ignoramus, dullard, moron, simpleton, donkey, jackass

Derivatives

buffoonish

adjective

It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over.
Example sentencesExamples
- In his heyday he was beloved as a comic genius, first from his radio days on The Goon Show, and then in his highly successful years on film, playing a long line of memorable characters headed by the heroically buffoonish Inspector Clouseau.
- There is no way of knowing whether he is writing on a level of subversive irony, whether he takes his wacky anarchist ideas seriously or whether they are incited by his buffoonish exhibitionism.
- The transition from buffoonish to sinister is seamless.
- I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from medieval Latin buffo 'clown'. Originally recorded as a rare Scots word for a kind of pantomime dance, the term later (late 16th century) denoted a professional jester.

This comes via French and Italian from medieval Latin buffo ‘a clown’. In the late 16th century a buffoon was a professional jester.

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon

Definition of buffoon in US English:

buffoon

nounbəˈfo͞onbəˈfun

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.
荒唐滑稽的人；小丑
Example sentencesExamples
- Also, these buffoons have the cheek to complain about dogs savaging sheep, when their packs of hounds race around the countryside under very little control, regularly disposing of domestic pets unfortunate enough to cross their path.
- According to the script, Interpol is run by buffoons and they let a super bad guy named Snakehead get away when he was about to steal the life-giving medallion.
- If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think.
- Also on Sunday afternoon the ever-popular ‘Trivia with Annabelle’ will sort out the boffins from the buffoons, with lots of prizes up for grabs and plenty of fun to be had.
- Along the same lines, there is an ad that features an incompetent buffoon who can't get his car stereo to work.
- He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons.
- Parody and satire work best when the target is worthy, with some fundamental flaw in their thinking or action that when exposed via a skilled humorist reveals them for the misguided buffoons that they are.
- Memo to Charles: the next time one of these buffoons wanders in and says ‘I'm a spin doctor and I'm here to help ’, run the other way.
- Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area?
- I am usually quite controlled, but I was irritated that I was forced to spend my time with these sycophantic buffoons, and it occurred to me that I should for once try to extract a fee for my weekly generosity.
- Sit back and savour the antics and battle of wits unleashed by the team of buffoons, hold your breath at the breath-stopping show of trapeze artistes and the exciting fare dished out by acrobats on bicycles.
- Far from being a bunch of incompetent buffoons the agency was assigned the delicate task of choosing the target, keeping it a secret from other NATO allies and providing the necessary cover story once the bombing occurred.
- On TV shows, leading men wore suits and came home from offices, not factories, while the occasional blue-collar protagonists who did appear were treated as buffoons.
- And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons.
- By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons.
- There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center.
- He mocked these buffoons and perhaps rendered them a bit too much in caricature, but then, the upper-class conservatives deserve to be ridiculed for their part in furthering the downfall of British society.
- However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context.
- These two gentlemen chose to behave like buffoons and engaged in heckling each other, much to the alarm of the businessmen who were expecting some intelligent responses to their questions.
- Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers.
Synonyms
fool, idiot, dolt, ass, nincompoop, blockhead, dunce, dunderhead, ignoramus, dullard, moron, simpleton, donkey, jackass

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from medieval Latin buffo ‘clown’. Originally recorded as a rare Scots word for a kind of pantomime dance, the term later (late 16th century) denoted a professional jester.

单词	buffoon
释义	Definition of buffoon in English: buffoon noun bəˈfuːnbəˈfun A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown. 荒唐滑稽的人；小丑 Example sentencesExamples Also on Sunday afternoon the ever-popular ‘Trivia with Annabelle’ will sort out the boffins from the buffoons, with lots of prizes up for grabs and plenty of fun to be had. I am usually quite controlled, but I was irritated that I was forced to spend my time with these sycophantic buffoons, and it occurred to me that I should for once try to extract a fee for my weekly generosity. On TV shows, leading men wore suits and came home from offices, not factories, while the occasional blue-collar protagonists who did appear were treated as buffoons. Along the same lines, there is an ad that features an incompetent buffoon who can't get his car stereo to work. Memo to Charles: the next time one of these buffoons wanders in and says ‘I'm a spin doctor and I'm here to help ’, run the other way. According to the script, Interpol is run by buffoons and they let a super bad guy named Snakehead get away when he was about to steal the life-giving medallion. He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons. However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context. By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons. Sit back and savour the antics and battle of wits unleashed by the team of buffoons, hold your breath at the breath-stopping show of trapeze artistes and the exciting fare dished out by acrobats on bicycles. Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers. Also, these buffoons have the cheek to complain about dogs savaging sheep, when their packs of hounds race around the countryside under very little control, regularly disposing of domestic pets unfortunate enough to cross their path. He mocked these buffoons and perhaps rendered them a bit too much in caricature, but then, the upper-class conservatives deserve to be ridiculed for their part in furthering the downfall of British society. If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. Parody and satire work best when the target is worthy, with some fundamental flaw in their thinking or action that when exposed via a skilled humorist reveals them for the misguided buffoons that they are. Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area? And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons. There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center. Far from being a bunch of incompetent buffoons the agency was assigned the delicate task of choosing the target, keeping it a secret from other NATO allies and providing the necessary cover story once the bombing occurred. These two gentlemen chose to behave like buffoons and engaged in heckling each other, much to the alarm of the businessmen who were expecting some intelligent responses to their questions. Synonyms fool, idiot, dolt, ass, nincompoop, blockhead, dunce, dunderhead, ignoramus, dullard, moron, simpleton, donkey, jackass Derivatives buffoonish adjective It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over. Example sentencesExamples In his heyday he was beloved as a comic genius, first from his radio days on The Goon Show, and then in his highly successful years on film, playing a long line of memorable characters headed by the heroically buffoonish Inspector Clouseau. There is no way of knowing whether he is writing on a level of subversive irony, whether he takes his wacky anarchist ideas seriously or whether they are incited by his buffoonish exhibitionism. The transition from buffoonish to sinister is seamless. I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work. Origin Mid 16th century: from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from medieval Latin buffo 'clown'. Originally recorded as a rare Scots word for a kind of pantomime dance, the term later (late 16th century) denoted a professional jester. This comes via French and Italian from medieval Latin buffo ‘a clown’. In the late 16th century a buffoon was a professional jester. Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of buffoon in US English: buffoon nounbəˈfo͞onbəˈfun A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown. 荒唐滑稽的人；小丑 Example sentencesExamples Also, these buffoons have the cheek to complain about dogs savaging sheep, when their packs of hounds race around the countryside under very little control, regularly disposing of domestic pets unfortunate enough to cross their path. According to the script, Interpol is run by buffoons and they let a super bad guy named Snakehead get away when he was about to steal the life-giving medallion. If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. Also on Sunday afternoon the ever-popular ‘Trivia with Annabelle’ will sort out the boffins from the buffoons, with lots of prizes up for grabs and plenty of fun to be had. Along the same lines, there is an ad that features an incompetent buffoon who can't get his car stereo to work. He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons. Parody and satire work best when the target is worthy, with some fundamental flaw in their thinking or action that when exposed via a skilled humorist reveals them for the misguided buffoons that they are. Memo to Charles: the next time one of these buffoons wanders in and says ‘I'm a spin doctor and I'm here to help ’, run the other way. Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area? I am usually quite controlled, but I was irritated that I was forced to spend my time with these sycophantic buffoons, and it occurred to me that I should for once try to extract a fee for my weekly generosity. Sit back and savour the antics and battle of wits unleashed by the team of buffoons, hold your breath at the breath-stopping show of trapeze artistes and the exciting fare dished out by acrobats on bicycles. Far from being a bunch of incompetent buffoons the agency was assigned the delicate task of choosing the target, keeping it a secret from other NATO allies and providing the necessary cover story once the bombing occurred. On TV shows, leading men wore suits and came home from offices, not factories, while the occasional blue-collar protagonists who did appear were treated as buffoons. And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons. By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons. There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center. He mocked these buffoons and perhaps rendered them a bit too much in caricature, but then, the upper-class conservatives deserve to be ridiculed for their part in furthering the downfall of British society. However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context. These two gentlemen chose to behave like buffoons and engaged in heckling each other, much to the alarm of the businessmen who were expecting some intelligent responses to their questions. Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers. Synonyms fool, idiot, dolt, ass, nincompoop, blockhead, dunce, dunderhead, ignoramus, dullard, moron, simpleton, donkey, jackass Origin Mid 16th century: from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from medieval Latin buffo ‘clown’. Originally recorded as a rare Scots word for a kind of pantomime dance, the term later (late 16th century) denoted a professional jester.
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