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Clown
Clown Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Clown?
[n] a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
[n] a rude or vulgar fool
[v] act as or like a clown
Synonyms | Synonyms for Clown: antic |
buffoon |
clown around |
merry andrew
Related Terms | Find terms related to Clown: acrobat |
aerialist |
apple knocker |
arriviste |
ass |
Babbitt |
banana |
bareback rider |
be foolish |
be stupid |
blockhead |
blunderer |
blunderhead |
boor |
born fool |
botcher |
bounder |
bourgeois |
bucolic |
buffo |
buffoon |
bumbler |
bumpkin |
bungler |
burlesquer |
cad |
caper |
caricaturist |
churl |
circus artist |
clod |
clodhopper |
clodknocker |
clot |
clown around |
Columbine |
comedian |
comic |
country bumpkin |
cut up |
cutup |
dolt |
doodle |
egregious ass |
epicier |
epigrammatist |
equestrian director |
equilibrist |
farceur |
farmer |
figure of fun |
flier |
fool |
fool around |
frivol |
fumbler |
funnyman |
gag writer |
gagman |
gagster |
galoot |
gawk |
get funny |
go haywire |
gowk |
groundling |
guttersnipe |
Hanswurst |
Harlequin |
hayseed |
hick |
high-wire artist |
hillbilly |
hooligan |
horse around |
humorist |
ignoramus |
ill-bred fellow |
invite ridicule |
ironist |
jackass |
jack-pudding |
jerk |
jester |
joker |
jokesmith |
jokester |
juggler |
klutz |
lampooner |
lion tamer |
looby |
lout |
low fellow |
lubber |
lummox |
lunatic |
madcap |
merry-andrew |
milksop |
mime |
mooncalf |
motley |
motley fool |
mountebank |
mucker |
mummer |
nouveau riche |
oaf |
ox |
Pantalone |
Pantaloon |
parodist |
parvenu |
peasant |
perfect fool |
Philistine |
pickle-herring |
play the buffoon |
play the fool |
Polichinelle |
prankster |
provincial |
Pulcinella |
Punch |
Punchinello |
punner |
punster |
quipster |
reparteeist |
ribald |
ringmaster |
rough |
roughneck |
rowdy |
rube |
ruffian |
rustic |
satirist |
Scaramouch |
schmuck |
slack-rope artist |
slouch |
slubberer |
snake charmer |
softhead |
sop |
stupid ass |
sword swallower |
tightrope walker |
tomfool |
trapeze artist |
trifle |
tumbler |
upstart |
vulgarian |
vulgarist |
wag |
wagwit |
wisecracker |
wit |
witling |
yahoo |
yokel |
zany
See Also | comedian |
comic |
Emmett Kelly |
fool |
harlequin |
jest |
jester |
joke |
Kelly |
muggins |
Pantaloon |
sap |
saphead |
tomfool |
Weary Willie |
whiteface |
zany
Clown In Webster's Dictionary
\Clown\ (kloun), n. [Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish
fellow, North Fries. kl["o]nne clown, dial. Sw. klunn log,
Dan. klunt log, block, and E. clump, n.]
1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an
ill-bred person; a boor. --Sir P. Sidney.
2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
The clown, the child of nature, without guile.
--Cowper.
3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are
tickle o'the sere. --Shak.
\Clown\, v. i.
To act as a clown; -- with it. [Obs.]
Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. --B. Jonson.
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