clownage en · NOUN
Etymology
From clown + -age.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The antics of a clown.
Their infamous act is the tricks they play with you, their clownage and stunts...
2020, Amo Jones, Kristy Bromberg, Make Me Yours:
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(obsolete, uncountable) The behaviour or manners of a yokel or rustic.
Honour and honesty, as poor things thought we / As they are made! pride and stiff clownage mixt / To make up greatness!
a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC: