Word.ws English Dictionary

clown shoe

clown shoe noun: a comedically oversized shoe, usually brightly colored and with a bulbous front.

clown shoe: a comedically oversized shoe, usually brightly colored and with a bulbous front
Image: otakuchick, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

clown shoe (plural clown shoes)

  1. A comedically oversized shoe, usually brightly colored and with a bulbous front.
  2. (derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person.
    • Sorry, clown shoe. I'm not going to click any tinyurl link that you provide […]2006 February 15, Jason Bell, “The Muhammed Cartoons”, in rec.sport.basketball.college (Usenet), message-ID <8AOIf.13460$915.7816@southeast.rr.com>
    • What a fucking clown shoe you are, Billy. Ya got nothing.2007 April 23, “Gonzo goes down in flames”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), message-ID <1177345606.310210.218960@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>

Forms of clown shoe

pluralclown shoes

Origin of clown shoe

Typically worn by clowns.

Questions about clown shoe

What does clown shoe mean?
Clown shoe means a comedically oversized shoe, usually brightly colored and with a bulbous front.
What part of speech is clown shoe?
Clown shoe is a noun.
What is the plural of clown shoe?
The plural of clown shoe is clown shoes.

Words near clown shoe in the dictionary

  1. clown princes
  2. clown princess
  3. clown princesses
  4. clown school
  5. clown schools
  6. clown shoe
  7. clown shoes
  8. clown show
  9. clown shows
  10. clown therapy
  11. clown world

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clown shoe (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-clown shoe.wav.

Cite this entry: “clown shoe.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clown_shoe. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.