buffoonry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

"[W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]"
"[We] have […] a strong inclination to make a farce of it, and mingle buffoonry with the most serious scenes."

From buffoon + -ry.

buffoonries (plural)

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