Buffoonery is ridiculous behaviour meant to raise a laugh. Pure buffoonery, tired of the buffoonery.
It is nearly always used with contempt, even when the buffoonery worked. Buffoonery in a serious setting is a way of avoiding a question.
1nounbuffooneryRidiculous behaviour meant to raise a laugh.
“The debate collapsed into buffoonery in ten minutes.”
buffoonery is behaviour.
Italian
buffone — jester
Middle French
bouffon
English
buffoon
English, today
buffoonery
Built from
From buffoon + -ery. buffoon comes from Middle French bouffon, from Italian buffone (“jester”), from buffare (“to puff out the cheeks”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle High German buffen "to puff"; > German büffen, Old English pyffan (“to breathe out, blow with the mouth”). More at English puff.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA