clown
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Is clown a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of clown?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.Examples: "This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill - favoured a vizar"; "[…] 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."obsolete
2. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.Examples: "The clown, the child of nature, without guile."; "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; […]"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.Examples: "Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids."intransitive
2. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule, make fun of.Examples: "The show Dismissed was one of my favorites, because I like to see people get clowned."; "All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit."Synonyms: clown ontransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary