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单词 buffoon
释义
buffoonbuf‧foon /bəˈfuːn/ noun [countable] old-fashioned Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbuffoon
Origin:
1500-1600 French boufon, from Old Italian buffone, probably from buffare ‘to breathe hard, blow’
Examples
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  • But in summer the A87 is crammed with caravan-dragging buffoons who drive as though wearing strait-jackets.
  • More precisely, a buffoon with a wacky idea and too much free time.
  • Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.
  • Posterity at first mocked Boswell as a buffoon and lickspittle who managed to write a great book.
  • To many people he was just a romantic buffoon.
  • What a buffoon, what a butt, what a caricature.
  • You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare.
someone who does silly amusing thingsbuffoonery noun [uncountable]
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