clownとは

発音

• enPR: kloun, IPA^(key): /klaʊn/
• 韻: -aʊn

名詞

A clown

clown (複数形 clowns)

1. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
   • 2008, Lich King, "Black Metal Sucks", Toxic Zombie Onslaught.

     Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown

2. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
3. (chiefly Britain) A stupid person.
4. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir Philip Sidney to this entry?)

   • Timothy Nourse, Campania Foelix (1700), pp. 15–16

     […] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.

5. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
   • Cowper

     The clown, the child of nature, without guile.

   • Samuel Johnson

     He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]

同意語

• (person who acts in a silly fashion): buffoon, fool

派生語

• clown beetle
• class clown
• clown doctor
• clownfish
• clownish

動詞

clown (三人称単数 現在形 clowns, 現在分詞 clowning, 過去形および過去分詞形 clowned)

1. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.

派生語

• clown about (英国用法)
• clown around

参考

• coulrophobia
• jester
• jackpudding