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buffoonery|bəˈfuːnərɪ|
Also 7 buffonnerie, 7–8 buffon-, buffoonry.
[f. buffoon n. + -ery.]
The practice of a buffoon; low jesting or ridicule, farce.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 450 Flatterie and Buffonrie swayed all in the Romane Senate. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 685 Ianglery, buffonnerie, and such other vices. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 81 They are the first that laugh and applaud any Buffonry. 1745Fielding True Patr. Wks. 1775 IX. 296 Power and government..have been set up as the butts of ridicule and buffoonry. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 125 ⁋6 This conversation..degenerates too much towards buffoonery and farce. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 132 You may often laugh at buffoonery which you would be ashamed to utter. |