Word Meanings - CLOWNAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.

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• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
• CLOWNERY
  Clownishness. L'Estrange.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.