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All clown synonyms

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verb clown

  • 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, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
  • 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.
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