| 释义 |
clowning, vbl. n.|ˈklaʊnɪŋ|
[f. clown v. + -ing1.]
Playing the clown.
1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 121 My knowledge of penny-gaff clowning. 1878H. Irving Stage 27 At Sadler's Wells, where previously there had been nothing but clowning and spectacle.
fig.1889Times 30 Jan. 9/5 The blundering to which we owe his last bit of political clowning. |