buffoonery

buffoonery
    n 1: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: {buffoonery},
         {clowning}, {japery}, {frivolity}, {harlequinade}, {prank}]
    

Buffoonery \Buf*foon"er*y\, n.; pl. {Buffooneries}. [F.
   bouffonnerie.]
   The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous
   pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
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         Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a
         tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush?"
                                                  --Spectator.
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83 Moby Thesaurus words for "buffoonery":
      acting, asininity, banter, battiness, brainlessness, business,
      characterization, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness,
      craziness, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity,
      fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, fooling, foolishness,
      frivolity, frivolousness, gag, giddiness, goofiness, ham,
      hammy acting, harlequinade, hoke, hokum, horseplay, idiocy,
      imbecility, impersonation, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, lunacy,
      madness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mindlessness,
      monkeyshines, mummery, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, overacting,
      pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation,
      playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, queerness,
      representation, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shenanigans,
      silliness, slapstick, stage business, stage directions,
      stage presence, stunt, stupidity, taking a role, thoughtlessness,
      tomfoolery, triflingness, triviality, wackiness, weirdness,
      witlessness, zaniness, zanyism