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clown English

Meaning clown meaning

What does clown mean?
Definitions in simple English

clown Noun

— A clown is a person that entertains people, usually at a circus. He dresses in bright colors, has paint on his face, and wears clothes that are too big for him. Some children are afraid by clowns because of their unusual appearance that can be rather impressive. — A clown is also a person whose behaviour is a bit silly, not serious. Though very intelligent, this person is a true clown so that no one believes what he says.

clown Verb

— A person who is clowning is not serious, acts in a silly way, like a clown. Stop clowning all the time, you're annoying me!

clown

— noun a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior — noun a rude or vulgar fool — verb act as or like a clown

Synonyms clown synonyms

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clown English » English

buffoon jester comedian joker fool harlequin comic buffon antic wag merry andrew funnyman entertainer clown around boor zany silly mime merry-andrew lout goofball goof funny person droll bumpkin bufoon yob wiseass wacky wackadoo unwitty stooge smart ass smart aleck smart alec semiconscious screwball provincial person prankster pleb person from the country peasant patch pantaloon oaf muck around mischief-maker merryandrew loon laughingstock

Topics clown topics

What do people use clown to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Humor

Conjugation clown conjugation

How do you conjugate clown?

clown · verb

Examples clown examples

How do I use clown in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The clown fell down on purpose.
The clown at the circus pleased my children.
The clown made a funny face.
His dress is that of gentleman, but his speech and behavior are those of a clown.
Picasso was no clown. He was a sarcastic commentator on a confused age, a great archivist of humanity's foolishness.
What does a clown do in an office? Fax!
Daniel came to his birthday party dressed as a clown.
My friend is really a clown.
He's the class clown.
He was painted like a clown.
Don't tell your father you want to become a clown.
You can't arrest me for being a clown.
Who're you talking to, clown?
Why are you staring at me as if I was a clown? Do you expect me to perform a stunt?
Congratulations! You're a clown.
Will you dance with me, my little clown?
The clown is afraid of the dark.
Tom is a clown.

Movie subtitles

Clown!
So you were flirting with that cheap clown, were you?
Clown.
It's some clown dressed up in rags.
Acting the clown's one thing, but you're playing with everyone's safety.
I wouldn't clown, Johnny.
This morning they read that an incompetent clown had arrived, parading like a member of the Senate.
A clown in a showbooth is jolly too.
Made him a clown.
And on top of that, they made him a clown!
What she minds was him makin' a clown of himself in her own front yard. Made her think he didn't care much about her!
You don't need to be a clown.
He was a clown last year.
The very essence of the quintessence of the clown's art.
You are still a clown.
When necessary, I fly across the line, and play the clown, or the Austrian officer.
I'm tired of playing the clown at the Hippo-Palace.
Get out of the way, you big clown.
He's lending a saucepan to some clown dressed in my grandma's trousers.
When a clown goes out into the world with only a pea for a brain, it always ends with the crackpot coming home.
The name of your father and mine borne by a clown!
The clown.
Look at the clown climbing across that ledge in daylight.
My next will be better, my fancy clown.
A clown?!
And on top of that, they made him a clown.
Don't see me walking around with the clown's frown.
Did that clown just steal our car?
Where is the clown now?
I was the town clown, but there wasn't much room in the business world, Lucy, for that kind of a fella.
I'm going to break that clown's neck.
Clown?
A clown?
Yes, especially when that fat clown broke his arm.
I had to come and clown around in a ball, between the Moon and.
I'll do a magician, a musical clown, a lion tamer.
You are a clown.
What's that clown want?

News and current affairs

A television comic named Victor Trujillo, but better known as Brozo the Creepy Clown, became the most influential political commentator in Mexico.
Even the history of the circus is focused on such a pairing: the vain, dignified White Clown and Augustus the Fool, the humble loser who is kicked in the pants by his stiff, pompous partner.
In the socio-political arena, Augustus the Fool faces the Clown of Power.
If Tudor were a mere political clown, the question of whether or not he still hates Jews would not matter.
But electing a clown is not the answer either.
Inevitably, in the bright public square, Augustus the Fool, the poet, faces the Clown of Power.
Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out: the ultra-rich business tycoon and the clown.
Neither the clown nor the tycoon is well suited to being a democratic leader.
The chant became so tedious that inevitably, the class clown would ask if the incantation would end up turning us all into asthmatics, as Che was.
It was Brozo the Clown who exposed a major corruption scandal in the office of a former Mexico City mayor.
The host, interviewer, and main commentator was Victor Trujillo, better known as Brozo the Clown, adorned with a green wig and a red rubber nose.

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