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clownish, a.|ˈklaʊnɪʃ|
[f. clown n. + -ish1.]
1. Of, belonging to, or proper to a clown or peasant; rustic.
1570Levins Manip. 145/11 Clownish, rusticus, agrestis. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. iii. lix. (1591) 150 Petilius Cerealis..in clownish apparell [agresti cultu]..had escaped Vitellius' handes. a1704T. Brown 2 Oxf. Scholars Wks. 1730 I. 16 Honest peasants, whose clownish dances are attended with extempore verses. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 300 He had the clownish advantage of bone and muscle.
2. Clown-like, rude, boorish; uncultivated, ignorant, stupid; awkward, clumsy; rough, coarse.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 415 A wonderfull clownishe conclusion, meete for such a clowting botcher. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 172 No clownish or uncivill fashions are seene in him. 1653Z. Bogan Mirth Chr. Life 189 His feares of being counted foolish, or childish, or clownish. 1826Scott Woodst. viii, His demeanour was so blunt as sometimes might be termed clownish.
3. Of the nature of a stage clown or jester.
(This sense is doubtful in all the quotations.)
1600Rowlands Let. Humours Blood Epigr. xxx. 36 Clownes knew the Clowne, by his great clownish slop. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 132 To steale The clownish Foole out of your Fathers Court. c1720Prior Poems (J.), The clownish mimic traverses the stage. |