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Clown

Clown Meaning & Definition
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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