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< Buffon, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de

bufotenine >

buf·foon

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NOUN:

A clown; a jester: a court buffoon.
A person given to clowning and joking.
A ludicrous or bumbling person; a fool.

ETYMOLOGY:
French bouffon, from Old Italian buffone, from buffa, jest, from buffare, to puff, of imitative origin

OTHER FORMS:
buf·fooner·y (b

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