The term Buffoon is used to define someone who provides amusement through inappropriate appearance and/or behavior. In Australian colloquial slang Buffoon comes close in meaning to the term dag Dag is an Australian slang term, often used as an affectionate insult{{fact}}[1] for someone who is, or is perceived to be unfashionable, lacking self consciousness about their appearance and with poor social skills yet affable and amusing. ...
Strictly, a buffoon describes a "ridiculous, but nevertheless amusing person." In the broad terms, a buffoon is a clownish, publicly amusing person, such as a court jester. In the more modern sense, the term is frequently used in a derogatory sense to describe someone considered a public fool, or someone whose inappropriately vulgar, bumbling or ridiculous behavior is a source of general amusement. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A jester or fool is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages. ...
The term may originate from the old Italian "buffare", meaning to puff out one's cheeks. Robin Williams conjectures in the movie Toys that the word "is a combination of the words 'buffer' and 'fool.' Or perhaps 'buffamotus,' he who carries the pickle." Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1952)[1] is an American actor and comedian. ... Toys is a 1992 surreal black comedy film directed by Barry Levinson // Spoiler warning: Kenneth Zevo (Donald OConnor) had made of himself a surrealistic toy empire, that he, his two children, Leslie (Robin Williams) and Alsatia (Joan Cusack), and the factory employees were more than happy to live and...
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A "tired and emotional" Earl of Rochester was involved in an amusing incident in a poem presented to the king, when he said: This does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Poor Prince, thy prick, like thy buffoons at Court, will govern thee because it makes thee sport
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