an entertainer who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh 丑角;小丑 - (figurative)
Robert was always the class clown (= he did silly things to make the other students laugh). 那时候罗伯特总是班里的活宝。
- (figurative)
- (informal, disapproving)
a person that you think is bad because they act in a stupid way Topics Personal qualitiesc2蠢货;笨蛋
Word Originmid 16th cent. relating to an unsophisticated country person: perhaps of Low German origin.