noun
definition
One who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.
definition
An unintentionally ridiculous person.
verb
definition
To behave like a buffoon
Examples of buffoon in a Sentence
He has a keen sense of humor without becoming a buffoon.
Dave, Barry S Wales Prescott is a bumbling buffoon.
Put him beside his wife and he looks a regular buffoon!
The " creature " of Charles, as he called himself, this burly, violent scholar, buffoon and bully, was reckoned a patriot.
When they have a complete buffoon as prime minister, the combination is explosive.
But rather than playing buffoon to Lee's philosopher, Richard is more laid back and less analytical.
I don't know why the ignorant buffoon hasn't rung me yet.
That buffoon making a fool of himself at a business open house may well turn out to be the next executive or business owner you'll need to see.
It was a funny and tender film partially because of Moore's steadfast performance to Grant's stumbling buffoon.
Blunkett, the class buffoon, says that immigrants speaking English at home would help " overcome the schizophrenia which bedevils generational relationships " .
She said and felt at that time that no man was more to her than Nastasya Ivanovna, the buffoon.
He was the buffoon, who went by a woman's name, Nastasya Ivanovna.
Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the window with two old ladies.
Though people were afraid of Marya Dmitrievna she was regarded in Petersburg as a buffoon, and so of what she had said they only noticed, and repeated in a whisper, the one coarse word she had used, supposing the whole sting of her remark to lie in that word.
No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role.