buffoonery
Syllables: buf·foon·ery
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Canada/bəˈfuːnəɹi/
buffoonery noun: the behavior of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
Noun
buffoonery (countable and uncountable, plural buffooneries)
- The behavior of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
- Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage and Appurtenances; […]1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 14
- [W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of the Manner of Satan’s Acting and Carrying on His Affairs in This World, and Particularly of His Ordinary Workings in the Dark, by Possession and Agitation”, in The Political...
buffoonery meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Persian
buffoonery in Tamil
- கோமாளித்தனம், நகைப்பு விளைக்குஞ் செயல், கோமாளிக் கூத்து, கேலி, கேளிக்கை, விகடம்
buffoonery in Persian
- behaviour expected of a buffoon — see also foolishness, silliness, clownery
- شوت بازی šut-bâzi
Examples of buffoonery in a sentence
- […] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC...
- Preamble is a hard-boiled steel commuter built for comfort, durability, and buffoonery on pavement and gravel.2025, “Pavement Bikes”, in Surly Bikes, retrieved 21 Feb 2025:
Forms of buffoonery
| plural | buffooneries |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | buffoonry |
Origin of buffoonery
From buffoon + -ery.
Words formed from buffoonery
Questions about buffoonery
- What does buffoonery mean?
- Buffoonery means the behavior of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
- What is buffoonery in Tamil?
- Buffoonery in Tamil is கோமாளித்தனம், நகைப்பு விளைக்குஞ் செயல், கோமாளிக் கூத்து. See Buffoonery meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use buffoonery in a sentence?
- […] One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.
- What part of speech is buffoonery?
- Buffoonery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce buffoonery?
- Buffoonery is pronounced /bəˈfuːnəɹi/ (Canada).
- What is the plural of buffoonery?
- The plural of buffoonery is buffooneries.
Words near buffoonery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: buffoonery (page history and authors); buffoonery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); buffoonery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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