"He used his buffoonery to cheer up a boy who had just gotten an F on his English paper."
"The actions in the state legislature can sometimes appear more like buffoonery than serious lawmaking."
it means acting like a clown or buffoon
it means acting like a clown
comedy, satire, slapstick, burlesque, buffoonery, mockery, joke, nonsense, parody, shambles, sham, travesty
Buffoon is a noun but does not have a verb form.Buffoonnouna person who is always clowning and trying to be funny; clownRelated Forms:-buffoonery noun-buffoonish adjective
-ery is a suffix meaning 'describing the quality of having' the root word, in this case; having the quality of being brave. Also used in the sense of 'place of' 'art of' 'condition of' Also as in brewery, trickery, buffoonery
The collective nouns for a group of apes are:a shrewdness of apesa troop of apesThe collective nouns for a group of chimpanzees are:a cartload of chimpanzeesa family of chimpanzeesa harem of chimpanzeesa troop of chimpanzeesa whoop of chimpanzees
Mean
There are no perfect rhymes for the word buffoonery.
Buffoonery means behavior that is silly, foolish, or ridiculous. It is a real word that is used to describe someone's clownish or absurd actions.
Zanyism is clownish behaviour or buffoonery.
A group of orangutans is known as a buffoonery.
comedy, satire, slapstick, burlesque, buffoonery, mockery, joke, nonsense, parody, shambles, sham, travesty
body, buoy - can't think of any more!!
Buffoon is a noun but does not have a verb form.Buffoonnouna person who is always clowning and trying to be funny; clownRelated Forms:-buffoonery noun-buffoonish adjective
A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. A plus !
A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew., Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon., To act the part of a buffoon., To treat with buffoonery.
STRUGGLE: A profound state of buffoonery or oafishness characterized by pitiful performance or inability to complete menial tasks; When referring to an object, it indicates a laughable or rough appearance. "Wow. Look at that guy. He looks like a dumptruck ran over his face. He struggles hard."
A term often used to describe institutionalised ineptitude - notably when an organisation changes staff and/or restructures with the promise of change, but instead maintains the ineptitude despite the new faces.
-ery is a suffix meaning 'describing the quality of having' the root word, in this case; having the quality of being brave. Also used in the sense of 'place of' 'art of' 'condition of' Also as in brewery, trickery, buffoonery