Meaning of balatron | Babel Free

Definitions

A buffoon; one who speaks a lot of nonsense and is characterized by self-indulgence.

Examples

“If we are "students of the Balatronic dialect" — a dialect so called from the "Balatrons" or professional buffons who invented most of it — we shall perhaps refer to its users as: — "Blunderkins, having their heads stuffed with nought but balderdash.”

“His fat body shook like a balatron, as if his soul, biting for anger at a mouth inadequately circumferential, desired in vain to fret a passage through it.”

“But he did not want to look a complete balatron in front of the Rabbi.”

“Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron.”

CEFR level