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Clowning   /klˈaʊnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
clowning  n.  
1.
Acting like a clown or buffoon.
Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank.
2.
A comic incident or series of incidents.
Synonyms: drollery, comedy, funniness.





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"Clowning" Quotes from Famous Books



... approbation caused either by an excess of emotion in the audience, or—this he thought more probable—a general uneasiness before a great moment of life. The crowded theatre was wholly relieved, itself again, in a succeeding passage of trivial clowning. ...
— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer
... the attempt to find out, was wreaked upon Michael. They tried him at hurdle-jumping, at walking on forelegs, at pony-riding, at forward flips, and at clowning with other dogs. They tried him at waltzing, all his legs cord-fastened and dragged and jerked and slacked under him. They spiked his collar in some of the attempted tricks to keep him from lurching from side to side or from falling forward or backward. ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... "droll," as I must fully admit I have. I can thoroughly enjoy the long-toed comedian, and feel quite sure that if time and opportunity could combine to let me see once a week a film figuring Charlie Chaplin I should be transported with delight. Good clowning, or even bad clowning, or what people call the appalling, or melancholy, or "cut- throat," jokes in a comic paper I ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey


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