Coarse or indecent language or behaviour; crude jesting; ribaldry; obscenity. Also in weaker sense: frivolous entertainment or behaviour…

A foolish or extravagant action or performance; a frolic, caper, or entertainment. Now English regional (south-western).

scurrilous jesting.

buffoonery.

Irrational, deluded, or absurd thought, speech, or behaviour; delusion, absurdity. Also: an absurd, irrational, or deluded belief or remark.

With qualifying adjective in adverbial phrases with in or into. The mood or mental state for jesting or acting in an amusing or ridiculous…

Buffoonery, scurrility.

= buffoonery, n.

That which is not sense; absurd or meaningless words or ideas.

Buffoon-like behaviour. Obsolete.

The practice of a buffoon; low jesting or ridicule, farce.

The action of playing the buffoon; low jesting, buffoonery. Also attributive.

Used for ‘buffoonery’.

Originally: (Classical History) a theatrical performer popular in the Roman Empire who represented mythological stories through gestures and…

The character or style of a zany; action or language like that of a zany; fantastic folly; buffoonery.

transferred. Buffoonery; fantastic procedure.