A2verb · transitive · common

clown

clown · clowns · clowned · clowning

валять дурака

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To act in a silly or playful fashionTo act in a silly or playful fashion.

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/ˈklaʊ̯n/

» The clown fell down on purpose.

Der Clown ist absichtlich hingefallen. — human600

Клоун упал нарочно. — odexed

Клоун упав навмисне. — rozmaita

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Meaning

2 senses

(intransitive)To act in a silly or playful fashion.
act as or like a clown
(transitive)To ridicule, make fun of.

Examples

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The clown fell down on purpose.
Клоун упав навмисне. — rozmaita
ruКлоун упал нарочно. — odexed
deDer Clown ist absichtlich hingefallen. — human600
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Tom is the class clown.
Том шкільний клоун. — deniko
deTom ist der Klassenclown. — Luiaard
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The clown made a funny face.
deDer Clown machte ein lustiges Gesicht. — xtofu80
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My friend is really a clown.
deMein Freund ist wirklich ein Clown. — Esperantostern
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I used to work as a clown.
ruЯ раньше работал клоуном. — marafon
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Origin

From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of

From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc.

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