clown
noun/klaʊn/
/klaʊn/
- an entertainer who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh
- (figurative) Robert was always the class clown (= he did silly things to make the other students laugh).
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- (informal, disapproving) a person that you think is bad because they act in a stupid way
- What do those clowns in the government think they are doing?
Word Originmid 16th cent. relating to an unsophisticated country person: perhaps of Low German origin.
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