n. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

n. a person who lacks good judgment

n. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

v. indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

v. make a fool or dupe of

v. spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

v. fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

adv. away from a place, as in "go forth"

adv. away from the reference point: "He kicked his legs out"

adv. indicating continuing action, as in "He worked away"

adv. "clean off the dirt"; "She went off"

adv. "Brush the objections aside"

adv. "Put aside some money"

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

adj. away from home or business: "has been out all day"; "out to lunch"

adj. used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"

adj. (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

n. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

n. mimics literary or musical style for comic effect

n. a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

n. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others

n. an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments

n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression

n. a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

n. someone punished for the errors of others

n. a person of subnormal intelligence

n. a person who is hunted

v. behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"

v. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"

v. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

v. beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

v. deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"

v. pay out; "spend money"

v. pay out

v. use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

v. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

v. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"

v. give false or misleading information to

adj. separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"

adv. "They had never travelled abroad"

adv. in or to another place; "he went elsewhere"; "look elsewhere for the answer"

adj. very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"

adj. most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"

adj. remote; "far-flung corners of the Empire"

adj. happening in or being of another town or city; "an out-of-town tryout"; "an out-of-town school"

adj. distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?"

adj. outside regular school hours: "a special after-school class"

adj. (prefix) outside or outer: "ectoderm"

adj. (prefix) outside or beyond: "an extrauterine pregnancy"

adj. outside the regular duties of your job or profession

adj. outside the regular academic curriculum; "sports and drama are popular extracurricular activities"

adj. (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward; "the right side of the cloth showed the pattern"; "be sure your shirt is right side out"

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

adj. used informally

adj. heavy and dull and stupid

adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

adj. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

adj. mentally sluggish

adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

adj. used of your own ground; "a home game"

adj. spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"

adj. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness