What is another word for buffoonery?
1419 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bʌfˈuːnəɹi], [ bʌfˈuːnəɹi], [ b_ʌ_f_ˈuː_n_ə_ɹ_i]
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Similar words for buffoonery:
- act (noun)
- amusement (noun)
- drollery (noun)
- farce (noun)
- fooling (noun)
- foolishness (noun)
- fun (noun)
- ha-ha (noun)
- horseplay (noun)
- humor (noun)
- humorousness (noun)
- jocosity (noun)
- joke (noun)
- merriment/merrymaking (noun)
- monkey business (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- ridicule (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Buffoonery:
n.
• act (noun) • amusement (noun) • drollery (noun) • farce (noun)- camp,
- slapstick,
- interlude,
- burlesque,
- parody,
- mock,
- ridiculousness,
- travesty,
- skit,
- comedy,
- caricature,
- sham,
- absurdity,
- play.
- cheer,
- joy,
- entertainment,
- mirth,
- gaiety,
- picnic,
- diversion,
- riot,
- gambol,
- romp,
- holiday,
- celebration,
- playfulness,
- frolic,
- pleasure,
- jollity,
- festivity,
- laughter,
- blast,
- escapade,
- recreation,
- grins,
- sport,
- big time,
- enjoyment,
- game,
- treat,
- distraction,
- ball,
- Romping,
- rejoicing,
- jocularity,
- solace,
- merrymaking.
- flippancy,
- Comicality,
- jocoseness,
- happiness,
- witticism,
- pleasantry,
- badinage,
- whimsy,
- comicalness,
- gag,
- raillery,
- lightness,
- levity,
- joyfulness,
- jest,
- wisecrack,
- banter,
- wit.
- epigram,
- lark,
- one-liner,
- caprice,
- payoff,
- quirk,
- rib,
- snow job,
- monkeyshine,
- saw,
- caper,
- sally,
- laugh,
- yarn,
- jape,
- put-on,
- mischief,
- spree,
- shenanigan,
- antic,
- revel,
- hoodwinking,
- trick,
- pun,
- vagary.
- cheerfulness,
- shindig,
- glee,
- hoopla,
- laughs,
- liveliness,
- brawl,
- conviviality,
- jocundity,
- joviality,
- hilarity,
- revelry.
- fun,
- Skylarking,
- monkey business,
- drollery,
- pastime,
- folly,
- high camp,
- teasing,
- Frolicking,
- jocosity,
- spoofing,
- nonsense,
- Mummeries,
- mischief-making,
- mockery,
- re-creations,
- rough-housing,
- hijinks,
- merriments,
- farce,
- self-indulgence,
- bon mot,
- fun and games,
- pratfall comedy,
- re-creation,
- broad comedy,
- horse feathers,
- irresponsibility,
- high spirits,
- clowning around,
- craziness,
- whoopee,
- chestnut,
- joke,
- wingdings,
- Buffooneries,
- chestnuts,
- Fooling,
- Festivities,
- facetiousness,
- trifling,
- PUNS,
- good times,
- Laughters,
- hokeypokey,
- amusement,
- wingding,
- rowdiness,
- tomfoolery,
- silliness,
- junketings,
- absurdness,
- Clownishness,
- wittiness,
- joking,
- Fooleries,
- ridicule,
- carrying-on,
- carryings-on,
- ludicrousness,
- lunacy,
- relaxation,
- shaggy-dog story,
- foolery,
- good time,
- hokey-pokey,
- repartee,
- jokes,
- humor,
- living it up,
- low camp,
- mummery,
- indulgence,
- roughhouse,
- making light,
- ha-ha,
- horseplay,
- junketing,
- roughhousing,
- fooling around.
Other synonyms:
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- crank,
- antics,
- shenanigans,
- stunt,
- brainstorm.
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- aberration.
- dig up,
- sportsman,
- grumpiness,
- exultant,
- correspond,
- refugee camp,
- love,
- inertia,
- dancing,
- cheer up,
- don,
- grind,
- ballock,
- come up,
- love life,
- sportswoman,
- bet,
- grump,
- gala affair,
- liquid body substance,
- tussle,
- power saw,
- sense of humor,
- indulging,
- groovy,
- despite,
- roguery,
- lame,
- lecture,
- impertinence,
- lenience,
- delineation,
- repulsiveness,
- feigning,
- jabbing,
- gesticulate,
- plug,
- learning ability,
- overplus,
- picture,
- degrade,
- bound,
- grinning,
- humoring,
- annoy,
- cark,
- stalk,
- annoying,
- goat,
- shred,
- snap,
- plethora,
- comprehend,
- gage,
- caustic remark,
- methamphetamine,
- bunco,
- barrack,
- summer camp,
- twaddle,
- whimsey,
- pretend,
- ape,
- whoremaster,
- chicane,
- starter,
- operation,
- racket,
- blowout,
- slightness,
- act as,
- look,
- taradiddle,
- maneuver,
- mobilise,
- flap down,
- express mirth,
- exulting,
- dizziness,
- cut into,
- meth,
- get at,
- rioting,
- rile,
- insaneness,
- recreate,
- snort,
- backchat,
- bizarreness,
- blitheness,
- crack,
- byword,
- gimpy,
- excavate,
- attaint,
- care for,
- delight,
- strangle,
- fruitcake,
- sound projection,
- baseball,
- gimcrackery,
- perturb,
- piece of tail,
- liberalisation,
- play tricks,
- face,
- whoredom,
- heedlessness,
- shaft,
- dun,
- pilfer,
- card,
- jolly,
- refreshment,
- vexing,
- functioning,
- bring up,
- carrying into action,
- mismanage,
- irresponsibleness,
- rebound,
- make a face,
- stooge,
- internal representation,
- vamoose,
- address,
- jolly up,
- pack,
- root on,
- gibelike,
- bird,
- back,
- knock down,
- clod,
- impulse,
- inconsequence,
- hee-haw,
- prostitution,
- department of state,
- inconstancy,
- hullabaloo,
- thrust,
- false,
- mass meeting,
- rise,
- legerdemain,
- sprinkle,
- rig,
- scream,
- mulct,
- dig out,
- word-painting,
- fool,
- start,
- aspect,
- nookie,
- spit,
- jubilant,
- tag end,
- delegacy,
- light-mindedness,
- public presentation,
- high jinx,
- chalk,
- idle words,
- repose,
- rascality,
- put down,
- music hall,
- excavation,
- halt,
- run,
- betise,
- exhilaration,
- jaw,
- jocose,
- contrariness,
- take to task,
- deviance,
- run around,
- tally,
- drunken revelry,
- animation,
- fiddle,
- fuck up,
- digression,
- ingroup,
- attack,
- guile,
- fret,
- unfavorable judgment,
- cinch,
- freeze off,
- slap-up,
- abstract,
- free rein,
- brainpower,
- upset,
- replication,
- leap,
- bollocks,
- cranky,
- tomboy,
- bid,
- sheet,
- poking,
- muster up,
- chew up,
- play a joke on,
- walkover,
- irritate,
- dally,
- fit,
- louse up,
- frustrate,
- hamming,
- riposte,
- razzing,
- brain,
- orchis,
- do by,
- difficulty,
- regale,
- josh,
- embolden,
- globe,
- ejection,
- project,
- tag,
- digging,
- carouse,
- costa,
- assumed,
- inconsideration,
- tantalize,
- byplay,
- free-for-all,
- exchange,
- relaxation method,
- raspberry,
- bring,
- prideful,
- role player,
- enactment,
- condescension,
- deoxyephedrine,
- muff,
- falseness,
- tender,
- playing period,
- baloney,
- lightheadedness,
- gust,
- tent,
- inactiveness,
- goody,
- tippy,
- blare,
- roister,
- dispraise,
- depiction,
- agency,
- characterisation,
- shuck,
- dilatoriness,
- portraying,
- infraction,
- dangerous undertaking,
- life,
- gamy,
- flak,
- aberrancy,
- ballyhoo,
- ride,
- work,
- hook,
- crank up,
- lousiness,
- lyssa,
- smash,
- clap,
- squelcher,
- insight,
- intermezzo,
- execution,
- wassail,
- apery,
- yield,
- faineance,
- tarradiddle,
- childishness,
- lark about,
- muck up,
- inconvenience,
- inner circle,
- retch,
- misrepresentation,
- public violence,
- unthoughtfulness,
- bacchanalia,
- leg-pulling,
- aggravation,
- diddle,
- shindy,
- upheaval,
- straw,
- sawing machine,
- amentia,
- put forward,
- whoremonger,
- decamp,
- fast one,
- gybe,
- dainty,
- bacchanal,
- ragtime,
- foul up,
- butt,
- nonsensicality,
- inspire,
- act,
- flack,
- runaway,
- husk,
- haw-haw,
- snuff out,
- insouciance,
- temper,
- bollock,
- put one over,
- inaction,
- playact,
- neat,
- incommode,
- formal,
- stab,
- jinks,
- grotesque,
- biz,
- shoo-in,
- feign,
- shammer,
- tosh,
- recital,
- encamp,
- mosh,
- churl,
- violation,
- titlark,
- pseudo,
- freak,
- walkaway,
- loafing,
- zigzag,
- awkwardness,
- conjuring trick,
- chute,
- ball up,
- meaninglessness,
- skim,
- bivouac,
- nark,
- notion,
- illogic,
- manoeuvre,
- play a trick on,
- fox-trot,
- heave,
- egg,
- glass,
- misdirection,
- easiness,
- irritating,
- kickshaw,
- loosening,
- take down,
- skylark,
- pestering,
- derogation,
- superfluity,
- trivia,
- wrongful conduct,
- disorder,
- literary criticism,
- screwball,
- blackguard,
- galling,
- movable feast,
- reflection,
- roll in the hay,
- illogicalness,
- gamey,
- farce comedy,
- hiss,
- get into,
- punning,
- wordplay,
- dissemble,
- bare-knuckled,
- parachuting,
- piece of cake,
- rag week,
- bash,
- encampment,
- impostor,
- plaguy,
- critique,
- cunctation,
- shoot,
- fury,
- bar billiards,
- drool,
- crotchet,
- bothersome,
- mawkishness,
- fustian,
- orgy,
- line,
- jumping,
- sunshine,
- stir,
- apprehend,
- leap out,
- disorderliness,
- raise,
- crippled,
- hoyden,
- nut,
- sin,
- horselaugh,
- theatrical performance,
- wages,
- cracking,
- state,
- bet on,
- torment,
- spurn,
- clumsiness,
- imposter,
- camp out,
- fumble,
- mount,
- bother,
- ice,
- swing music,
- hop-skip,
- quizzical,
- lambaste,
- narrative,
- lift,
- handle,
- fox,
- immorality,
- proverb,
- facial expression,
- saying,
- plow,
- make merry,
- peak,
- roasted,
- reward,
- get to,
- overplay,
- sauciness,
- pertness,
- nonsensical,
- meet,
- take on,
- jut,
- assume,
- field day,
- pretension,
- motion,
- take,
- meadowlark,
- jollify,
- final payment,
- thigh-slapper,
- bollix up,
- make happy,
- conjure up,
- pass over,
- agitation,
- dogfight,
- return,
- intemperateness,
- animal magnetism,
- blossom,
- debauch,
- reflexion,
- weightlessness,
- misdeed,
- apply,
- expulsion,
- nettlesome,
- thread,
- verbal expression,
- stand out,
- dress down,
- bawl out,
- jocular,
- imitation,
- screw,
- tabloid,
- fling,
- portrait,
- slackening,
- rest,
- paronomasia,
- vacation,
- simulation,
- bewitchery,
- capriciousness,
- noncompliance,
- outlandishness,
- mobilize,
- poke fun,
- slowness,
- cut,
- lump,
- affect,
- old,
- nothingness,
- hoof,
- sortie,
- pursuit,
- snarf,
- labor,
- cover,
- commercial enterprise,
- faker,
- have words,
- sidesplitter,
- bodily fluid,
- bollix,
- daftness,
- methedrine,
- roughness,
- make for,
- wrangle,
- screw up,
- issue,
- disport,
- call up,
- disk operating system,
- clientele,
- twit,
- fire,
- bollocks up,
- hollow,
- moil,
- inflammation,
- depreciation,
- spiel,
- mettlesome,
- job,
- misdemeanour,
- solacement,
- stake,
- musket ball,
- urge on,
- take in,
- fictitious,
- stuff and nonsense,
- burn out,
- ignominy,
- bang-up,
- carrying out,
- humbug,
- monster,
- befool,
- pseud,
- defraud,
- flout,
- mot,
- laugher,
- give-and-take,
- trifle,
- turn,
- joint,
- foot,
- remonstrate,
- camp down,
- magic trick,
- compass,
- invoke,
- bobble,
- jazz,
- spring,
- piece of ass,
- nimbleness,
- crackpot,
- pretender,
- spoil,
- chide,
- fake,
- vexatious,
- excitation,
- misdemean,
- deviation,
- pain,
- childhood,
- chunk,
- nail,
- distract,
- interest,
- gritty,
- jutting,
- fob,
- rant,
- put out,
- scoff,
- jambon,
- nettle,
- make fun,
- jest at,
- bloom,
- grin,
- goldbrick,
- savvy,
- business concern,
- ail,
- omission,
- badness,
- faithlessness,
- smashing,
- misbehave,
- put one across,
- darkness,
- climb up,
- botch up,
- solemnisation,
- gambling,
- filch,
- wear,
- bumble,
- body fluid,
- fervor,
- business organization,
- baseball game,
- saltation,
- boast,
- mishandle,
- sallying forth,
- dandy,
- fib,
- jiggery-pokery,
- laugh at,
- derisive,
- manifestation,
- deflection,
- feature,
- variation,
- pleasance,
- united states department of state,
- shabu,
- spatter,
- evoke,
- ease,
- chicken feed,
- suffocate,
- drum up,
- gravel,
- dishonor,
- skulduggery,
- small beer,
- poke,
- counter,
- boo,
- risky venture,
- halting,
- oddity,
- plot,
- exhort,
- bait,
- disrespect,
- falderol,
- vex,
- felicity,
- hocus-pocus,
- bemock,
- pull a fast one on,
- clique,
- flakiness,
- wow,
- ass,
- hoax,
- rollick,
- disturb,
- takings,
- moue,
- brainwave,
- formula,
- pretended,
- rowdyism,
- vacuity,
- call on the carpet,
- derail,
- shtup,
- muzzle,
- satirize,
- sexual love,
- prod,
- whim,
- scam,
- simulate,
- arouse,
- wile,
- not bad,
- sunniness,
- satirise,
- chew out,
- pesky,
- puckishness,
- pipit,
- despise,
- iniquity,
- clown,
- shell,
- stick out,
- summercater,
- pitter-patter,
- folderal,
- bully,
- flush,
- pestiferous,
- patronage,
- choke,
- jumpstart,
- mess up,
- negligible,
- encounter,
- victimize,
- contemn,
- clump,
- diversionary attack,
- boloney,
- roleplay,
- paltry,
- pinch,
- rashness,
- sliminess,
- conjuration,
- vertigo,
- wag,
- dishonour,
- athletics,
- discredit,
- extinguish,
- vileness,
- process,
- gloating,
- rallying,
- short-change,
- prime,
- swordplay,
- sendup,
- dissembling,
- jump-start,
- toy,
- fuss,
- inconvenience oneself,
- comb-out,
- thrash,
- swing,
- rejoinder,
- cantonment,
- reprimand,
- shimmer,
- deal,
- kid,
- thrusting,
- hysterical,
- fag,
- bribe,
- grammatical construction,
- discommode,
- saturnalia,
- optical aberration,
- conjure,
- trash,
- trounce,
- howler,
- forcing out,
- trip the light fantastic toe,
- purloin,
- agility,
- spunky,
- peachy,
- slickness,
- theatrical,
- magic,
- alternate,
- entr'acte,
- wind,
- relaxation behavior,
- quench,
- divagation,
- slam dance,
- cavort,
- toil,
- sprightliness,
- botch,
- efflorescence,
- ham actor,
- hoot,
- sweep,
- crotchetiness,
- gammon,
- flirtation,
- frill,
- postiche,
- distortion,
- match,
- jubilation,
- boom,
- wreak,
- boisterous,
- arbitrariness,
- forcemeat,
- muster,
- guise,
- titter,
- outing,
- scuffle,
- gladden,
- corking,
- delicacy,
- debauchery,
- consolation,
- mentality,
- idling,
- crosspatch,
- quirkiness,
- blow,
- trouble oneself,
- drudge,
- roguishness,
- disquiet,
- travail,
- spirited,
- savage,
- turn over,
- line of work,
- con,
- coquetry,
- homosexualism,
- duck soup,
- scold,
- agree,
- trumpery,
- comfort,
- worry,
- homoeroticism,
- soothe,
- deviltry,
- aberrance,
- lightsomeness,
- state department,
- rebuke,
- puniness,
- overact,
- dawdling,
- skip over,
- mutation,
- pep up,
- triumphant,
- elation,
- ruffle,
- stuff,
- boogie-woogie,
- testis,
- solemnization,
- intemperance,
- squelch,
- problem,
- enjoy,
- incitation,
- drama,
- bedevil,
- loathsomeness,
- spoof,
- chestnut tree,
- review,
- mood,
- unreason,
- get the picture,
- malarky,
- ham it up,
- stubble,
- hornswoggle,
- bunk,
- bungle,
- swell,
- cheat,
- sinfulness,
- express joy,
- clown around,
- actus reus,
- coterie,
- child's play,
- disoblige,
- story,
- summon,
- construction,
- flirt,
- maladroitness,
- ineptness,
- whoop it up,
- plaguey,
- wrongdoing,
- eruption,
- fucking,
- imposture,
- line of gab,
- flightiness,
- use,
- hop,
- testicle,
- tantalise,
- business sector,
- turn down,
- leniency,
- occupation,
- rejoice,
- proceeds,
- bang,
- shot,
- bosh,
- screwing,
- campy,
- nefariousness,
- jump off,
- hydrophobia,
- triumphal,
- devil,
- pushover,
- berate,
- narration,
- sunk fence,
- pillory,
- adventure,
- dishonesty,
- chicanery,
- fervour,
- flower,
- delectation,
- wager,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride,
- dupe,
- bound off,
- tease,
- hooey,
- toying,
- turn in,
- locution,
- rabies,
- secret plan,
- delve,
- mental capacity,
- infringement,
- rook,
- urge,
- inconsiderateness,
- slang,
- gloat,
- pretending,
- bilgewater,
- breeze,
- grasp,
- exultation,
- liberalization,
- blah,
- skullduggery,
- grouch,
- luggage,
- belly laugh,
- histrionics,
- gimcrack,
- great,
- irritation,
- evil,
- making love,
- represent,
- nobble,
- dramatic play,
- capriole,
- fantastic,
- skitter,
- legerity,
- make-believe,
- pooh-pooh,
- console,
- pretext,
- scoffing,
- terpsichore,
- flim-flam,
- protrusion,
- demean,
- business enterprise,
- gain,
- concern,
- check,
- frisk,
- smiling,
- carefreeness,
- unwiseness,
- cabbage,
- punt,
- period of play,
- guy,
- pasquinade,
- jolly along,
- pointlessness,
- homosexuality,
- perkiness,
- lambast,
- word picture,
- pampering,
- startle,
- fantastical,
- hype,
- looseness,
- nut case,
- chafe,
- jamboree,
- gull,
- fraudulence,
- fuck,
- call forth,
- formulation,
- spirit,
- sneak,
- portraiture,
- shame,
- shag,
- pettiness,
- deflexion,
- worthlessness,
- maleficence,
- jib,
- reject,
- flub,
- hassle,
- dark,
- unhinge,
- light,
- orb,
- beat up,
- claptrap,
- ugliness,
- leg it,
- keen,
- glob,
- knock,
- jump out,
- rage,
- mental representation,
- hearten,
- pout,
- incitement,
- labour,
- turmoil,
- crucify,
- depicting,
- change course,
- bare-knuckle,
- takeoff,
- retort,
- illusion,
- parachute,
- fictive,
- acoustic projection,
- archeological site,
- mutant,
- pull a face,
- shillyshally,
- adage,
- balefulness.
- deception,
- practical joke,
- crankiness,
- Stagery,
- Capering,
- Mimicking,
- madness,
- performing,
- unmeaning,
- portrayal,
- anticlimax,
- deceit,
- Clownery,
- fraud,
- laughingstock,
- overacting,
- imbecility,
- Sappiness,
- witlessness,
- Unconformity,
- weirdness,
- Jovialness,
- Zanyism,
- bathos,
- monkeyshines,
- heyday,
- performance,
- frivolousness,
- mimesis,
- representation,
- quip,
- miming,
- mimicry,
- senselessness,
- playing,
- fatuity,
- personation,
- queerness,
- fluff,
- baggage,
- harlotry,
- triflingness,
- bagatelle,
- ineptitude,
- stage directions,
- pantomiming,
- screwiness,
- daffiness,
- patter,
- fatuousness,
- impersonation,
- tricks,
- nuttiness,
- swindle,
- acting,
- Nugacity,
- giddiness,
- mindlessness,
- put on,
- eccentricity,
- battiness,
- characterization,
- business,
- espieglerie,
- ham,
- gesture,
- bombast,
- frippery,
- thoughtlessness,
- wackiness,
- projection,
- hoke,
- stage business,
- jeu de theatre,
- triviality,
- monstrosity,
- hokum,
- skip,
- waggishness,
- monkeying,
- playacting.
How to use "Buffoonery" in context?
The word buffoonery is derived from the French buffoon, which in turn is derived from the Italian buffone, both of which mean "jester". The English word buffoonery has been in use since the late 16th century and originally referred to the antics of the jester in a court or palace. Over time, the term has come to be used more generally to describe any kind of foolish, clownish behavior.
In general, buffoonery is characterized by nonsensical or crazy behavior, usually displayed for amusement or to entertain others. It can also be used to describe someone or something that is considered foolish or eccentric.
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