Usually means: Ridiculous behavior, foolishness, clownish antics.
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  1. buffoonery: Merriam-Webster
  2. buffoonery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buffoonery: Collins English Dictionary
  4. buffoonery: Vocabulary.com
  5. Buffoonery, buffoonery: Wordnik
  6. buffoonery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. buffoonery: Wiktionary
  8. Buffoonery, buffoonery: Dictionary.com
  9. Buffoonery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Buffoonery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. buffoonery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. buffoonery: Rhymezone
  13. Buffoonery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. buffoonery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. buffoonery: FreeDictionary.org
  16. buffoonery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. buffoonery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. buffoonery: Encyclopedia

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  1. buffoonery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (buffoonery)

▸ noun:  The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.

Similar:
clowning, prank, frivolity, harlequinade, buffoonry, buffoonism, buffoon, goofballery, clownage, bumfoolery, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, dignity, sobriety

Types:
tomfoolery, lunacy, foolishness, silliness, madness, idiotcy, more...

Adjectives:
low, mere, such, coarse, gross, vulgar, sheer, much, broad, grotesque, transcendental



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Similar:
clowning, prank, frivolity, harlequinade, buffoonry, buffoonism, buffoon, goofballery, clownage, bumfoolery, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, dignity, sobriety

Types:
tomfoolery, lunacy, foolishness, silliness, madness, idiotcy, more...

Adjectives:
low, mere, such, coarse, gross, vulgar, sheer, much, broad, grotesque, transcendental



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