Word Meanings - BUFFOONERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUFFOONERY)

• Drollery
• Fun
• whimsicality
• comicality
• trickery
• buffoonery
• facetiousness
• pleasantry
• Mummery
• Antics
• masquerade
• vagary
• Scurrility
• Buffoonery
• derision
• mockery
• jeering
• abuse

Related words: (words related to BUFFOONERY)

• MASQUERADER
  One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• JEERER
  A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
• SCURRILITY
  1. The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak. 2. That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language;
• JEER
  A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• COMICALITY
  The quality of being comical; something comical.
• JEERS
  See
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• MUMMERY
  1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton. 2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. Bacon.
• JEERING
  Mocking; scoffing. -- n.
• VAGARY
  1. A wandering or strolling. 2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a child." Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.
• DERISION
  1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision
• DROLLERY
  1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: A puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak.
• PLEASANTRY
  That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points
• MASQUERADE
  1. An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope. 2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 3. Acting
• MOCKERY
  1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• UNPLEASANTRY
  1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.