variants
or buffos
as in clowns
a comically dressed performer (as at a circus) who entertains with playful tricks and ridiculous behavior
in the comic opera, the buffo shared his entrance aria with a grimacing mime
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clowns
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For Jones, that means confronting her childhood fear of clowns.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025 -
In an operating room, a mad doctor performs plastic surgery to turn new recruits into killer clowns.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Buffi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buffi. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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