Definitions for buffoon

buffoon buf·foon

Spelling: [buh-foon]
IPA: /bəˈfun/

Buffoon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in buffoon (bffnoou).

Definitions for buffoon

noun

  1. a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc.
  2. a person given to coarse or undignified joking.

Origin of buffoon

1540-50; earlier buffon French Italian buffone, equivalent to buff- (expressive base; compare buffa puff of breath, buffare to puff, puff up one's checks) + -one agent suffix ≪ Latin -ō, accu

Examples for buffoon

They are at San Antonio—the baker, the buffoon, the two young men who dig.

Apparently, he was known in the Foreign Office as "HBH"—His buffoon Highness.

She had made him a laughing-stock, a buffoon, a political joke.

Keep that source of remarkable strength all quiet on the buffoon front.

He was the buffoon, who went by a woman's name, Nastasya Ivanovna.

Well, Coughlin was a buffoon, too, and in 1932, the party of Herbert Hoover was also in disarray.

Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot.

As dictator, he is a buffoon; let him make himself emperor, he will be grotesque.

Martyrdoms were represented on the stage, the martyr being the buffoon.

That messy hair of his that I always thought was buffoon hair was buffoon hair hiding a monster cock.

Word Value for buffoon
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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