From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbuffoonbuf‧foon /bəˈfuːn/ noun [countable] old-fashioned FUNNYsomeone who does silly amusing things —buffoonery noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
buffoon• Posterity at first mocked Boswell as a buffoon and lickspittle who managed to write a great book.• More precisely, a buffoon with a wacky idea and too much free time.• What a buffoon, what a butt, what a caricature.• But in summer the A87 is crammed with caravan-dragging buffoons who drive as though wearing strait-jackets.• You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare.• Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.• To many people he was just a romantic buffoon.Origin buffoon (1500-1600) French boufon, from Old Italian buffone, probably from buffare “to breathe hard, blow” 