an entertainer who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh 醜角;小醜 - (figurative)
Robert was always the class clown (= he did silly things to make the other students laugh). 那時候羅伯特總是班裏的活寶。
- (figurative)
- (informal, disapproving)
a person that you think is bad because they act in a stupid way Topics Personal qualitiesc2蠢貨;笨蛋
Word Originmid 16th cent. relating to an unsophisticated country person: perhaps of Low German origin.