buffoonery

buffoonery englannista suomeksi

1. ilveily

0. Substantiivi

1. pelleily

buffoonery englanniksi

1. The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.

2. (RQ:Congreve Old Batchelour)

3. (RQ:Defoe Devil)

4. (RQ:Austen Mansfield Park) One could not expect any body to take such a part—Nothing but buffoonery from beginning to end.

5. before 1891: P.T. Barnum, quoted in ''The Life of Phineas T. Barnum'' http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1576

The Temperance Reform was too ''serious'' a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.