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单词 clowning
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clowningn.

/ˈklaʊnɪŋ/
Etymology: < clown v. + -ing suffix1.
Playing the clown.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun]
jocularya1500
fooling?1545
clownage1590
buffoonizing1611
tomfoolery1812
clownery1821
tomfooling1823
clowning1861
jazzbo1914
slapstick1926
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 121/1 My knowledge of penny-gaff clowning.
1878 H. Irving Stage 27 At Sadler's Wells, where previously there had been nothing but clowning and spectacle.
figurative.1889 Times 30 Jan. 9/5 The blundering to which we owe his last bit of political clowning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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