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What (who) is buffoon - definition

HISTORICAL ENTERTAINER
Court Jester; Buffoonery; Court jester; Jester's privilege; FOOLS; Jesters; Folly And Fool; Buffoon; Buffoons; Jestyr; Narrenfreiheit; Jester's privelege; Court jesters; Fool (court jester); Jestress; Jestresses; King's fool; Giullari
  • ''Festival of the Archers''. [[Master of Frankfurt]],  1493. Two jesters are depicted in the center of the picture.

buffoon         
n.
Mountebank, harlequin, jester, droll, merry-andrew, punch, punchinello, clown, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
buffoon         
[b?'fu:n]
¦ noun a ridiculous but amusing person.
Derivatives
buffoonery noun (plural buffooneries).
buffoonish adjective
Origin
C16: from Fr. bouffon, from Ital. buffone, from med. L. buffo 'clown'.
buffoon         
(buffoons)
If you call someone a buffoon, you mean that they often do foolish things. (OLD-FASHIONED)
= clown
N-COUNT [disapproval]

Wikipedia

Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events.

During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences.

Examples of use of buffoon
1. "Beneath the carefully constructed veneer of a blithering buffoon," he once remarked, "there lurks a blithering buffoon." Ken, by contrast, isn‘t funny or self–deprecating.
2. He is a grotesquely incompetent and socialistic buffoon who is already in deep political trouble.
3. "It would be a mistake to regard him as a buffoon," the police source said.
4. "It would be a mistake to regard him as a buffoon.
5. The philandering buffoon was still singing and dancing when he should have been humbled.