buffoonery
English
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /bəˈfuːnəɹi/
Noun
buffoonery (countable and uncountable, plural buffooneries)
- foolishness, silliness; the behaviour expected of a buffoon.
- 1693: William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
- Araminta, come, I'll talk seriously to you now; could you but see with my eyes the buffoonery of one scene of address, a lover, set out with all his equipage and appurtenances; ...
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 273:
- […] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
- before 1891: P.T. Barnum, quoted in The Life of Phineas T. Barnum
- The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.
- 1693: William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
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