zany
A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly…A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
» He always had a zany sense of humor.
У него всегда было странное чувство юмора.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic)A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
- a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
Examples
3 sentencesHe always had a zany sense of humor.
ruУ него всегда было странное чувство юмора. — marafon
The otherwise dark and serious comic is punctuated by pages of zany side stories.
A good Tatoeba contributor adopts orphaned sentences so the rest of us can focus on Christopher Columbus and his zany antics.
Origin
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), fFrom Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a Venetian form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.
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