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buffoon
1540s, "type of pantomime dance," 1580s, "clown," from M.Fr.
bouffon
(16c.), from It.
buffone
"jester," from
buffare
"to puff out the cheeks," a comic gesture, of echoic origin.
Buffoonery
is from 1620s.