All clown synonyms
clown
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- joke β something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- fool around β a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- jest β a joke or witty remark; witticism.
noun clown
- fool β to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
- jester β a person who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
- mime β the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
- buffoon β If you call someone a buffoon, you mean that they often do foolish things.
- comedian β A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- comic β If you describe something as comic, you mean that it makes you laugh, and is often intended to make you laugh.
- prankster β a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- lout β an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- cut-up β to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- madcap β wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
- harlequin β (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- wag β to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
- ribald β vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
- jokester β a joker, especially a practical joker.
- punch β the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- joker β a person who jokes.
- wit β the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- zany β ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- antic β an actor in a ludicrous or grotesque part; clown; buffoon
- humorist β a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- dolt β a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- mummer β a person who wears a mask or fantastic costume while merrymaking or taking part in a pantomime, especially at Christmas and other festive seasons.
- merrymaker β a person who gaily or enthusiastically takes part in some festive or merry celebration; reveler.
- gagman β a person who writes comic material for public performers.
- pierrot β a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
- picador β one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
- rube β Arthur Joseph, 1908β90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962β65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965β68.
- oaf β a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- clodhopper β a clumsy person; lout
- bumpkin β If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bucolic β Bucolic means relating to the countryside.
- boor β If you refer to someone as a boor, you think their behaviour and attitudes are rough, uneducated, and rude.
- hind β situated in the rear or at the back; posterior: the hind legs of an animal.
- blockhead β a stupid person
- yahoo β (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- gawk β to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- chuff β a puffing sound of or as if of a steam engine
- rustic β of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- hayseed β grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
- peasant β a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- yokel β an unsophisticated person from a rural area; a country bumpkin.
- swain β a male admirer or lover.
- churl β a surly ill-bred person
- hick β an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
- droll β amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- farceur β a writer or director of or actor in farce.
- quipster β a person who frequently makes quips.