pelawakBahasa Indonesia

buffoon, clown, joker, comedian, comic

Rare #20,754 of the corpus · 2 per million words · 8,520 occurrences

From awak (peN-) · common, #3,656

Noun

A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

English: jester, fool, motley fool

Bahasa: badut

A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior

English: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew

Bahasa: badut

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A rude or vulgar fool

English: clown, buffoon

Bahasa: badut

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4 more noun senses

A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

English: comedian, comic

Bahasa: komedi, badut

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A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

English: joker, jokester

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A buffoon in one of the old comedies, imitates others for ludicrous effect

English: zany

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A playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester

English: joker

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