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Clowning   /klˈaʊnɪŋ/   Listen
Clowning

noun
1.
Acting like a clown or buffoon.  Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank.
2.
A comic incident or series of incidents.  Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness.



Clown

verb
1.
Act as or like a clown.  Synonyms: antic, clown around.



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"Clowning" Quotes from Famous Books



... either by an excess of emotion in the audience, or—this he thought more probable—a general uneasiness before a great moment of life. The crowded theatre was wholly relieved, itself again, in a succeeding passage of trivial clowning. ...
— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... kept silence before their Emperor. So did not we! You could hear the solid roar run West along the Wall as his chair was carried rocking through the crowds. The garrison beat round him—clamouring, clowning, asking for pay, for change of quarters, for anything that came into their wild heads. That chair was like a little boat among waves, dipping and falling, but always rising again after one had shut the ...
— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling

... this gift they acclaimed and continued to acclaim. Milly glanced coolly at the conductor, who winked back his permission, and the next moment the Bursley Operatic Society tasted the delight of its first encore. The pert fascinations of the heroine, the bravery of the Colonel and his guards, the clowning of Bunthorne, combined with the continuous seduction of the music and the scene, very quickly induced the audience to accept without reserve this amazing intrigue of logical absurdities which was being unrolled before it. The opera ceased to appear preposterous; the ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett



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