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Word: Buffoon
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from French bouffon, from Italian buffone, from medieval Latin buffo ‘clown’. Originally recorded as a rare Scots word for a kind of pantomime dance, the term later (late 16th century) denoted a professional jester
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
bəˈfuːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a ridiculous but amusing person; a clown
Short Definition:ridiculous but amusing person
Examples:- they are simply incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing
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