clownage

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Etymology edit

Noun edit

clownage (uncountable)

The antics of a clown.
Synonyms: clownery, clownishness
- (Can we date this quote by Devney Perry and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), ‎Amo Jones, ‎Kristy Bromberg, Make Me Yours
  Their infamous act is the tricks they play with you, their clownage and stunts...
(obsolete) The behaviour or manners of a yokel or rustic.
- a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
  Honour and honesty, as poor things thought we / As they are made! pride and stiff clownage mixt / To make up greatness!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clownage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)