Buffoon  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Redirected from Buffoonery)
Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

buffon

Buffoon is a term for someone who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.

Originally the term was used to describe a ridiculous but amusing person. The term is now frequently used in a derogatory sense to describe someone considered foolish, or someone displaying inappropriately vulgar, bumbling or ridiculous behavior that is a source of general amusement.

The term originates from the old Italian "buffare", meaning to puff out one's cheeks that also applies to bouffon.

Etymology

From Middle French bouffon, from Italian buffone (“jester”), from buffare (“to puff out the cheeks”)

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Buffoon" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools