(n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
(n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
(n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
(v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(3) Another McChrystal aide reportedly called the White House national security adviser, Jim Jones, a clown who was "stuck in 1985".
(4) Doctor Brown In 2011, the American Phil Burgers (AKA bearded silent comic Doctor Brown) performed the funniest comedy show on the fringe : a sexy, stoner clown show that delighted, intrigued and molested its audience.
(5) He was also a profoundly unostentatious and reserved man, and although he undertook a great variety of roles, all were informed at heart with the wisdom of the sad clown.
(6) St Basil's was like a clown's nose on the face of the evil empire.
(7) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
(8) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
(9) As well as political statements and corny clown jokes, Madonna lamented the fact she was “very single” and had not had sex for some time.
(10) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(11) Handshakes and hugs all round, from that clown Blatter and the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
(12) The legal challenges have been issued by a group of residents called the Preston New Road Action Group and Gayzer Frackman, a professional clown from Lytham St Annes who changed his name by deed poll from Geza Tarjanyi.
(13) The cupula of the supraorbital neuromast in the lateral line canal of the clown knifefish contains vertical columns.
(14) Afterwards, the group is photographed together, and Branson plays the clown, throwing his hands up in the air and whipping out that megawatt smile.
(15) This is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics.
(16) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(17) Again, he was taken as a clown and neither arrested nor disciplined.
(18) "Dressing for pleasure" and "fun fashion" get a bad rap, especially for women in their middle age, as it is generally assumed that this is a euphemism for women dressing like clowns and not realising that, at their age (huff, huff), they should be wearing beige cashmere.
(19) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
(20) Further collections of sketches followed – Send Up the Clowns (2011) and House of Fun (2012).
Goof
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Seldom has he goofed around with more serious a purpose.
(2) This time it was Cherundolo who goofed, kicking air as a long ball flew through to Djebbour, who again lacked composure and plopped a ridiculous shot into the sidenetting.
(3) Five-year-old Raghat loved singing, nail polish, teasing her toddler sister, the alphabet she was starting to learn at nursery, and goofing for the camera.
(4) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
(5) Kjaer goofed by passing straight to Kuyt, who quickly played in Van Persie.
(6) You know, it could be for some epic ride – attach it to the board, maybe, or just goofing off and doin' pranks, like, hey, there's a shopping cart, climb on in and we'll push ya down this steep hill and into that big bush, and film it!
(7) "When I was your age," Obama said, "I was a little bit of a goof-off.
(8) He also admitted: "When I was your age, I was a little bit of a goof-off.
(9) Days before the polls opened, the Tories tried to make hay by supplying the press with an exhaustive dossier of kerr-azy online goofs committed by Ukip candidates.
(10) The press officer concerned has apparently admitted: "Oops, I goofed, the president is mad with me."
(11) The aim of the present study was to investigate the accuracy of an electro-odontometric device "Odontometer" (Goof, Denmark) in the determination of the exact location of the apical constriction in root canals of extracted teeth in experimental conditions.
(12) In general, her inner experience was predominantly visual, and those images were frequently "goofed up", i.e., tilted, obliterated, or inaccurate in detail.
(13) I quaked and hoped and goofed through my teens, emerging into adulthood as someone who gave a good impression of being, if not exactly relaxed, then able to cope.
(14) It all started with an email chain This article from New York magazine explains how the seeds of BuzzFeed were sown with one email thread: In 2001, [founder Jonah] Peretti, then 27, was supposed to be writing his master’s thesis but instead diverted himself by goofing off online.
(15) So, again, the private sector stepped in when the NHS – and the government – had goofed.
(16) 9.11pm GMT 68 min: Neuru goofs, hitting a pass straight to Giroud, who tries to pick out Rosicky.
(17) Committed as ever to her cause, but I would imagine feeling somewhat defeated, tired, and pissed [off]”, while Abrams revealed: “There’s not much goofing around where Leia’s concerned.” Daisy Ridley’s Rey hasn’t seen her family since she was five years old We already knew that Rey was abandoned, but now there are a few extra details about her life on Jakku – described as a “junkyard planet” – that explain the character’s employment as a scavenger.
(18) Instead of saying I just goofed and have had no internal consistency I'm going to say I'm mixing things up like I'm a NBA coach.
(19) I was watching and I think he goofed the words in the second verse of Let Me Entertain You.
(20) "I think his job was so serious that he couldn't goof off.