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Перевод: buffoon

[прилагательное]
шутовской;
[существительное]
шут ; буффон ; фигляр ; паяц ;
[глагол]
паясничать; фиглярничать

Тезаурус:

1. Those buffoon figures (related by Cornford to incidents in Punch and Judy plays) were often figures from contemporary life who are eventually driven from the stage.
2. a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters (as he sees them) of virtue and truth, in effect an overspill from The Idiot - which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized, for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture, and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ;, and as to Kartuzov, the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname.
3. He regarded the chaplain as a buffoon though a dedicated buffoon.
4. Some people, though, use humour constantly to avoid issues - see Chapter Five - and someone who does this will end up being regarded as class buffoon.)
5. The preacher's arrogance and pomposity made Rosebery erupt: "He is a buffoon without the merits of a buffoon."
6. There is a tragic buffoon with bald pate and flowing hair; a short, bespectacled man entering a grey and paunchy middle age; and Gallotta himself, who patters manically around the stage, fixing the dancers with an unfocused glare, while waving his arms and muttering instructions down a microphone.
7. This Billy Bunterish buffoon is constantly but cheerfully beaten up as he pursues his doomed amorous adventures, for no man outdoes him in "passive valour".
8. "This hunger-striking buffoon sneaks out to eat so he can be well fed when he takes over the presidency, but he is screwed," General Noriega said of his opponent.
9. But Ochs is not a buffoon.
10. Hitchcock sets an innocent woman against Charles Laughton's squire, a criminal buffoon, and a gang of smugglers, but there is never any real conflict, and the ending is almost comic.
11. How To Speak Hooray A language that's beyond the ken of most people but certainly not the South Ken of the braying buffoon