beclown

Verb

beclown (third-person singular simple present beclowns, present participle beclowning, simple past and past participle beclowned)

1. (transitive) To make a fool of.
   • To the extent that the demand for Black English comes from people with this attitude it is not a serious demand, and to answer their arguments would be to play their game and beclown onself.^([sic])1972, J. Mitchell Morse, The Irrelevant English Teacher, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 82
   • In 1971, when I discussed his work in terms of this complex Renaissance understanding of folly, well documented in his own work and quite consistent with the traditions of the learned satire that he was trying to compose, he suggested that I had "beclowned" him, […]2001, Donald Theall, Virtual Marshall McLuhan, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 106