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buffoon

/buh-foon/US // bəˈfun //UK // (bəˈfuːn) //

小丑,活宝,丑角,小人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc.
    • : a person given to coarse or undignified joking.
    • : a silly or foolish person: He has been shown to be a pompous, incompetent buffoon.

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Examples

  • MPD detective Yari Babich had been assigned to the case, but Fanone learned Babich had posted a bunch of nasty comments on social media about Fanone’s media tour—calling him an egomaniac, a celebrity wannabe, unprofessional, a buffoon.

  • He is the lead character — and he’s reduced himself to this buffoon in the bathtub!

  • Ben Affleck can be an adequately chisel-jawed buffoon in spandex.

  • Apparently, he was known in the Foreign Office as "HBH"—His Buffoon Highness.

  • She chortled that Dubya was affable but a policy buffoon; she actually liked him personally, but hated his politics.

  • He objects to seeing customers portrayed as "these sad, pathetic buffoon wretches."

  • That messy hair of his that I always thought was buffoon hair was buffoon hair hiding a monster cock.

  • He belongs to the buffoon class, and is distinguished by his mandoline and ballad-singing.

  • Figure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.

  • In short, he entirely sacrificed every appearance of the warrior to the masquerade of a buffoon.

  • In an instant the man who had been masquerading as a buffoon was again the commanding officer, stern and alert.

  • In the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig.