FUNNYsomeone who does sillyamusing things 丑角;滑稽可笑的人
—buffoonery noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
buffoon• 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 mindlessbuffoons 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 romanticbuffoon.
Originbuffoon
(1500-1600)Frenchboufon, from Old Italianbuffone, probably from buffare“to breathe hard, blow”