buffoonery
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
buffoonery (countable and uncountable, plural buffooneries)
- The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
- 1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 14:
- Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee with my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; [...]
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, 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 [1]
- The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.
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