Clown
[klaʊn]
Definition
(noun.) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior.
(noun.) a rude or vulgar fool.
(verb.) act as or like a clown.
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Definition
(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
(n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
(v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rustic, peasant, swain, ploughman, countryman, bumpkin, lout, clodpole, boor, hind.[2]. Churl, ill-bred man.[3]. Buffoon, fool, mountebank, harlequin, jester, droll, punch, zany, scaramouch, merry Andrew, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
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Definition
n. a rustic or country-fellow: one with the rough manners of a countryman: an ill-bred fellow: a fool or buffoon.—ns. Clown′ery a clown's performance; Clown′ing acting the clown.—adj. Clown′ish of or like a clown: coarse and awkward: rustic.—adv. Clown′ishly.—ns. Clown′ishness; Clown′ship.
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Examples
- You don't need to be a clown. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fifth compartment represents the clown as having jumped over pantaloon's head, and coming down to the ground; and in each succeeding division his farther descent is shown, till, in No. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Father's a;' Sissy whispered the awful word, 'a clown. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was dressed for the pantomimes in all the absurdity of a clown's costume. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This is Cedric's clown, who fought so manful a skirmish with Isaac of York about a question of precedence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr. Sleary had only made one cut at the Clown with his long whip-lash, and the Clown had only said, 'If you do it again, I'll throw the horse at you! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They all three went in; and Mr. Gradgrind sat down forlorn, on the Clown's performing chair in the middle of the ring. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- To those of my own house I am no alien, which I am to these English clowns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands; And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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