clown

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

clownsclownecloyne

1.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
2.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.
3.
A stupid person.
4.
(archaic)A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
5.
(archaic)One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
6.
A clownfish.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

clowns

V_ing/Gerund

clowning

V_ed/pp

clownedclowne

1.
(intransitive)To act in a silly or playful fashion.
2.
(transitive)(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule, make fun of.
Đồng nghĩa: clown on

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Đồng nghĩa

clown onbuffoon fool

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Nguồn gốc từ

From earlier clowne, cloyne (man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant); likely of origin, akin to klunni, kluns, all from klunz, from klunt (pile, lump, something thick); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (to ball up; amass), such as,, *kultaz (lump, bundle), etc.