buffoonish
adjEtymology From buffoon + -ish.
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Characteristic of a buffoon.
- Sisi once joked that he was a spy, drawing laughter from the rest because Segun with his habitual look of buffoonish imbecility, his mouth constantly hanging open, hands flailing, does not look smart enough to be a spy.2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), pages 107-108:
- Derived terms
- buffoonishly