Word Meanings - BUFFOONLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Low; vulgar. Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

Related words: (words related to BUFFOONLY)

• APISHNESS
  The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• APISHLY
  In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• VULGARIZATION
  The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
• VULGARIAN
  A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
• VULGARISM
  1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
• VULGARLY
  In a vulgar manner.
• VULGARIZE
  To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.
• GOODMAN
  1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak. 2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.
• VULGAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• VULGARNESS
  The quality of being vulgar.
• VULGARITY
  1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne. 2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity
• BUFFOONLY
  Low; vulgar. Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.
• APISH
  Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.
• TRICKSINESS
  The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
• DEVULGARIZE
  To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.
• TAPISH
  To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.
• INVULGAR
  To cause to become or appear vulgar. Daniel.
• UNVULGARIZE
  To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.
• SUPRAVULGAR
  Being above the vulgar or common people. Collier.