bouffon

French bouffon

bouffon (countable and uncountable, plural bouffons)

1. (countable, uncountable) A style of performance focused on mockery, associated with French theater.
2. (countable) A clown or buffoon character.

Inherited from Middle French boufon, from Italian buffone.

• IPA^(key): /bu.fɔ̃/

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bouffon m (plural bouffons, feminine bouffonne)

1. fool (person who entertained a sovereign)
2. buffoon, fool (someone foolish)

• bouffonner
• bouffonnerie

bouffon (feminine bouffonne, masculine plural bouffons, feminine plural bouffonnes)

1. grotesque, silly, clownlike

• “bouffon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

bouffon m (plural bouffons)

1. alternative form of boufon

Borrowed from French bouffon, from Italian.

bouffon m (plural bouffons)

1. (Jersey) clown