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r tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

To treat with buffoonery. Glanvill.

The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

To exceed in buffoonery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose. [R.] Donaldson.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [R.] Lamb.

That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse. Interrupting prayers and sermons with clamor and scurrility. Macaulay.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.