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Buffoon

means one who puffs out his cheeks, and makes a ridiculous explosion by causing them suddenly to collapse. This being a standing trick with clowns, caused the name to be applied to low jesters. The Italian baffare is “to puff out the cheeks for the purpose of making an explosion;” our puff. (Italian buffone, a buffoon; French bouffon.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Budge
Budge (To)
Budge Baehelors
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Buff
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Robe (A)
Buffer
Buffer (A)
Buffoon
Buffoons
Buffs
Bugaboo
Bugbear
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Buhl-work
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