Meaning of clown | Babel Free

Definitions

1. clownish; buffoonlike
2. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
3. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
4. A person whose words or actions provoke or are intended to provoke amusement or laughter:comedian, comic, farceur, funnyman, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, quipster, wag, wit, zany.
5. A stupid person.
6. Informal. To make jokes; behave playfully.Also used with around:jest, joke.
7. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
   obsolete
8. to behave ridiculously. Stop clowning. hansworsery يُهَرِّج، يَتَصَرَّف كالمُهَرِّج правя се на шут fazer palhaçadas chovat se jako šašek kaspern spille klovn κάνω τον καραγκιόζη, φέρομαι γελοία hacer el payaso veiderdama لودگی کردن؛ مسخرگی کردن pelleillä faire le clown לְהִשתָטוֹת मूर्खतापूर्ण व्यवहार करना ponašati se kao klaun bohóckodik membadut fíflast fare il clown/pagliaccio おどける 교양 없이 굴다 juokus krėsti, kvailioti ākstīties jangan melawak lagi de clown spelen klovne, spille bajas, gjøre ...
9. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
   obsolete
10. lomp تَهْريجي، كالبَهْلول палячовски apalhaçado šaškovský närrisch naragtig; tåbelig γελοίος, κλοουνίστικος bufonesco klounilik دلقک وار pellemäinen bouffon הִשתָטוּת मूर्खतापूर्ण poput kaluna bohóckodó seperti badut fíflalegur, klaufskur da pagliaccio こっけいな 익살스러운, 버릇 없는 juokdariškas, komiškas ākstīgs suka melawak clowneskklovnaktig błazeński مسخره گی apalhaçado de clovn шутовской šašovský burkast klovnovski clownaktig, tölpaktig ที่ตลก soytarı gibi 丑角(般)的，滑稽的 клоунський; блазенський مزاحیہ ح...
11. A clownfish.
12. A buffoon or jester who entertains by jokes, antics, and tricks in a circus, play, or other presentation.
13. A coarse, rude, vulgar person; a boor.
14. A peasant; a rustic.
15. To behave like a buffoon or jester.
16. To perform as a buffoon or jester.
17. To krump, especially in clown makeup.

Equivalents

Examples

“Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown”

“He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.”

“"The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and Modigliani and the like."”

“Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays, Turns into the Hulk – Ain’t he unglamour-rays! [unglamorous] Wreckin’ the town with the power of a bull, Ain’t no monster, clown. Who is as lovable As ever-lovin’ Hulk? - Hulk! Hulk!”

“Everything’s on the table, the specs are there in the RFP and can’t be changed by some clown in the Air Force who happens to come up with a new idea.”

“'Breaking my sister's heart then getting pissed with his mates in the very next pub while she's sobbing alone?' I dragged this clown away from the fruitie and back to Amy next door, running my mouth off at him as we went.”

“This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill - favoured a vizar”

The New Arcadia

“[…] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.”

“The clown, the child of nature, without guile.”

“He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]”

“While the tomato clownfish Amphiprion frenatus has been spawned in captivity, wild-caught tomato clowns are more often seen for sale.”

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