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Meanings of goof in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
idiota
Spanish
idiota

A man who is a stupid incompetent fool.

idiota
Spanish
pecar

Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake.

pecar
Portuguese
palhaços
Catalan
pallasso
Spanish
payaso

A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior.

palhaços
Synonyms
Examples for "clown"
Examples for "clown"
1
The clown-car approach-ofwhich the SmallSat Express is an example-comeswith complications.
Wired
2
He leaned closer and said quickly, The clown won't talk without you.
Foundation and Empire
3
AUGUST, page 143: Name of the chief clown in the Berlin Circus.
Dame Care
4
Claude seemed barely real to me: a paper clown, innocuous and laughable.
The Girls
5
That makes three men; and the clown and policeman will make five.
Fanny's First Play
1
In American hands, terrifying sociopath Finchy is simply sexist buffoon Todd Packer.
The Guardian
2
He climbed the hill in silence, wondering just what the buffoon meant.
Birthright: A Novel
3
The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless court jester.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
4
But it is particularly suitable for the purposes of a great buffoon.
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
5
The half-elf felt cold, suddenly realizing this gully dwarf was no buffoon.
Dragons of autumn twilight
1
A Lord is a merry andrew, a Duke a jack pudding, and a King a tom fool: his name is man!
Anna St. Ives
2
One of the company added, 'A merry Andrew, a buffoon.'
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
3
CHARACTERS: Hans Matthis, keeper of "the Merry Andrew"; Dr. Frantz, the magnetizer; the Judge.
Standard Selections / A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Pr...
4
And you are Andrew Merry , or Merry Andrew.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5
Archy-'MerryAndrew,' as I used to call him,-ownedone of the finest estates in Jamaica-Golden Grove.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
Usage of goof in English
1
One more minute; then he'd ask this goof to let him out.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
2
He and Roland liked to goof-likedto have fun-butthey were careful.
Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
3
You gaping goof, I don't have time to explain that to you.
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas
4
It took several months, and there was one goof-up after another.
Escape
5
I know you think you're not worthy of it, you goof.
Big girl: a novel
6
Art3mis: You're not holding up your end of our Q & A, goof.
Ready Player One
7
And not, how is it the King puts it-ahyes-andnot 'goof off.'
King Rat
8
It seems Twitter has been taking notes on Facebook's Cambridge Analytica goof, though.
The South African
9
And during filming, he frequently stepped behind the tavern's bar to goof around.
BBC
10
Some guys would walk, take short cuts and really goof off.
The Biography of a Rabbit
11
Mitchell and Pamela Shanti Pack goof around in between climbing sessions.
Climbing Magazine
12
Now, Mamma, we can't let this goof stay here all night.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
13
Remember all those other times he spoke goof to power?
Wired
14
Or you could goof and give the Germans a chance to mount another comeback.
The Guardian
15
We just did that as a goof on the commercial.
Reuters
16
It's a sci-fi goof perfectly built for a summer on its last green legs.
Wired
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