Usually means: Clownish, foolish person; often ridiculed.
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  1. buffoon: Merriam-Webster
  2. buffoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buffoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buffoon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buffoon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buffoon, buffoon: Wordnik
  7. buffoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buffoon: Wiktionary
  9. buffoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buffoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buffoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buffoon: Dictionary.com
  13. buffoon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buffoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buffoon, The Buffoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buffoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buffoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buffoon: Rhymezone
  19. Buffoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buffoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. buffoon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. buffoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. buffoon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. buffoon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. buffoon: Dictionary.com
  26. buffoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. buffoon: Encyclopedia

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  1. buffoon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (buffoon)

▸ noun:  One who performs in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.
▸ noun:  (derogatory) An unintentionally ridiculous person.
▸ verb:  To behave like a buffoon

Similar:
Merry Andrew, clown, buffoonery, clowny, zany, fool's fool, buffoonism, buffoonry, goofball, fooler, more...

Opposite:
sophisticate, intellectual, erudite

Types:
clown, jester, fool, harlequin, court jester, comedian, prankster, more...

Phrases:
hapless buffoon on tv, pantomime buffoon, mad buffoon, more...

Adjectives:
mere, old, low, drunken, comic, coarse, celebrated, professional, vulgar, licensed, poor


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Similar:
Merry Andrew, clown, buffoonery, clowny, zany, fool's fool, buffoonism, buffoonry, goofball, fooler, more...

Opposite:
sophisticate, intellectual, erudite

Types:
clown, jester, fool, harlequin, court jester, comedian, prankster, more...

Phrases:
hapless buffoon on tv, pantomime buffoon, mad buffoon, more...

Adjectives:
mere, old, low, drunken, comic, coarse, celebrated, professional, vulgar, licensed, poor



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