| 单词 | buffoon |
| 释义 | buf·foon /bəˈfuːn/ noun [countable] old-fashioned FUNNYsomeone who does silly amusing things 丑角；滑稽可笑的人 —buffoonery noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusbuffoon• Posterity at first mocked Boswell as a buffoon and lickspittle who managed to write a great book.• More precisely, a buffoon with a wacky idea and too much free time.• What a buffoon, what a butt, what a caricature.• But in summer the A87 is crammed with caravan-dragging buffoons who drive as though wearing strait-jackets.• You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare.• Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.• To many people he was just a romantic buffoon.Origin buffoon (1500-1600) French boufon, from Old Italian buffone, probably from buffare “to breathe hard, blow”buf·foon nounChineseSyllable does silly things who someone amusing Corpus |
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